JM Shaw
Cut Foreign Aid — And Make Poverty History
Britain’s insistence on giving money we cannot afford to Africans who do not want it puts sentimentality before common sense
ONLINE ONLY: Education It’s Not
The author of a powerful new novel set in a comprehensive school explains why A-level results convey little about a pupil’s education
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?