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Schooling in Britain today is where medicine was in the days of bleeding and leeches. It is trapped in the past, between teachers wedded to their…

Hwaet! When I was a Yale undergraduate, I hated being asked what my major was. “Medieval studies? What will you do with that?”, was the inevitable…

Emmanuel Macron sounded like a man in grief. Not angry, not defiant, just a little triste. Europe, he lamented, was suffering a “degeneration of democracy”. Many…

I’ve heard snippets about the concept of Futique, the band’s new album. Is it true you’ve got into meditation recently? SassyWrapsAbout 12 years ago I had…

A Chinese economist once asked me to explain British universities. “Why do you take your young,” he said, “at their most creative age, lock them in…

Simon Goodwin, Melbourne’s only premiership coach in the past 60 years, has been sacked by the Demons. The former Adelaide champion, who led the club to…

Trigger warning. Some readers may find this disturbing. Not everything Donald Trump says is mad and a lie. Not all of it is about money. Some…

Donald Trump’s victory in last November’s US presidential election presented Keir Starmer, Britain’s Labour prime minister, with a choice – and an opportunity. Either cosy up…

The greatest failing of Britain’s schools is to teach children to read, write and count, but not to speak. They teach what technology can increasingly do…

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