Teaching
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
Enabling aggression
We must take on violence in British schools
Where are all the teachers going?
British education is in a sorry state
End violence in schools
How can people teach and learn in such dangerous conditions?
Rishi gets an F
There’s no point in teaching uninterested students maths
A quiet revolution
Enough of reformers who want to turn schools upside-down without knowing which way is up
Her story repeats itself
Hidden Lessons is filled with clichéd phrasing and, even worse, predictable and clichéd thinking
Beating a dead narrative
Yet another teacher memoir abuses more clichés
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Don’t judge a play by its label
The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse
Sex-Machina
Holy month is upon us
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
Failing universities
What has gone wrong in British higher education?
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
D stands for disgrace
He’ll start the defeat from right here
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
The ghosts of Tory past
The Conservatives are haunted by the spirits of the last two decades
Is Britain’s future still being determined in Europe?
The European Court of Human Rights continues to shape policy here in the UK
