Shadow Education Secretary
Rebecca Long Bailey – classroom warrior
On schools policy, Keir Starmer is no heir to Blair
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
