Angela Ritch
How Covid-19 exacerbates the “parent gap”
‘Many working-class parents are ill-equipped to prepare their children for the extra two years of education that they probably never experienced themselves’
Stop asking children how they feel
‘Why are children so unhappy? Or, why are they feeling so unhappy, which may be a different question altogether?’
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?