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Michaela Keeps Winning. The DfE Keeps Looking Away.

Few aspects of the Labour government are more dispiriting than its unchanging ideological dogma in education. You would hope that, at the very least, a Secretary of State would seek to ensure that our schools achieve the very highest academ...

15 days ago
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Cancelled by the National Trust

One day in 1973, my father, a former coal miner from Ebbw Vale, decided to buy a castle.

This was not a pumped-up neo-Georgian pile built by some Edwardian industrialist. No, this was Dynevor Castle (also known as Newton House), Llandeilo,...

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Bridget Phillipson: an end-of-term report

This is an article I wrote for The Critic in the light of the sacking of Bridget Phillipson, the former Secretary of State for Education. Suffice to say I felt it was a term in office that was marked by both spiteful, score-settling and, pe...

a month ago
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A review of 'After the Funeral' by Tessa Hadley

‘After the Funeral’ is the perfect title for Tessa Hadley’s collection of short stories. It captures not just one of her main themes - loss, and the transience of life - but also her focus as well: she is not a writer to dwell at length on...

2 months ago
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Online exams are bad news for schools and pupils

This week Colin Hughes, who as CEO of AQA oversees Britain’s largest exam board, said that there are “almost no downsides” to exams moving online. I wrote this article in UnHerd to argue that, on the contrary, there are only downsides to mo...

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