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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,...
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 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...
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...
The cost of envy
When Labour first announced its intention to impose VAT on independent school fees in July 2024, the rhetoric from various politicians, including the current Secretary of State for Education and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was predicta...
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Deputy Head with 25+ years in independent schools; contributor to The Spectator, CapX, The Critic, The Times & UnHerd. Author/editor of books on education & literature. Schools of Thought (Bloomsbury) out now.
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