Shirley Williams
Broken eggs, no omelette
Baroness Williams believed until she died that comprehensive schools fostered equality. Her folly has only entrenched class privilege
Shirley Williams – her legacy for education
Shirley Williams secured a selective school for her own daughter – but did not understand why other parents might want that choice
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
Eyes on the prizes — and the surprises
Every literary season has a book that comes from nowhere and seems to gallop ahead of the competition
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
No party for female voters
Gender-critical feminists have almost no one worth supporting
Has Badenoch peaked?
No one should assume they know who will be the next Conservative leader
Strawberry fields? Never
The idea of toughening zoomers up with hard labour is a pointless fantasy
Less smoking, more cancer?
Yet more nonsense from the public health lobby
The students are revolting
Far too many young people are sheltered from the real world by their university education