Schools
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Reclaiming private education for the masses
Advocates for freedom in school choice should not rely on sob stories, but on a principled defence of markets and the profit motive
It’s high time hi-vis visits were invisible
Politicians should stop using workers and children for cheap PR points
The case against An Inspector Calls
A short predictable play is a bad introduction to literature
Levelling the learners
The Curriculum and Assessment Review is a bundle of cliches with compromise at its core
Sorry, Keir Starmer, but schools can’t do it all
“Everythingism” is undermining the real value of education
Bridget Phillipson should smash her blank slate delusion
Different educational outcomes are not solely the product of injustice
Against the headmistress state
Britain should not become a national Michaela School to “make multiculturalism work”
Exams are good for children
Lowering standards is no act of kindness
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran