Chris Woodhead
Yes, Of Course I was Wired Weird’
Chris Woodhead interviews Geoffrey Hill, Oxford’s new Professor of Poetry
Here’s How Schools are Set Free, Mr Gove
The new Education Secretary’s anti-statist revolution must live up to his rhetoric by allowing schools to set their own admissions policies
Education, Education, Education
‘Have Gove and Cameron learnt nothing from the disasters of the past 12 years?’
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal