Teaching
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
What left and right get wrong about grammar schools
It was their liberal curricula that made grammar schools so successful
Homebrewed school reform
The home education movement is here to stay. That’s a good thing for everyone
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
In praise of the lecture
Face-to-face lectures can be far more illuminating than a mere video
A week in the life of a struggling academic
On the ups, downs and deeper downs of academic life
The school as a battleground
Michaela defeat will not deter Islamist designs on schools
Sparkling sweep of the turbulent south
A new history beautifully distils revolutionary cultures in post-Napoleonic Europe
A fresh face for an old friend
The National Portrait Galley’s renovation doesn’t disappoint, bringing light and space to tell the story of the nation
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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
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket