Schools
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Against Michaela multiculturalism
The school does not offer a successful model of integration for Britain
Badenoch’s guidance is a classic Tory fudge
It clarifies far less than it leaves confused
Return from Planet Gender
New guidance for schools on gender questioning children is a good start
The government should stop this social experiment on children
Don’t throw children to the activist wolves as guinea pigs
The true, the good and the beautiful
We have to redirect Western civilisation
What happened to the working class intellectual
Young people are not being encouraged or inspired
In defence of independent schools
If they ain’t broke, don’t fix ‘em
The sad, slow death of state schooling
The decline in standards has been dismayingly avoidable
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
