Katharine Birbalsingh
Toby Young at Heart
‘It is only when one tries to do good that one discovers just how many people will try to prevent one’s sucess’
Not Black and White
Why should ethnic minorities be castigated for voting Conservative when the Left have betrayed them educationally?
Sold out
‘The madness of the education debate has reached a point where NUT members would prefer to see a school building sold to a capitalist developer rather than see a free school succeed’
One Year To Go
‘The opposition to free schools can be intimidating—you’d think we were building nuclear bombs, not setting up a school’
Teaching Rioters The Right Lessons
Low academic standards are producing undisciplined young people. The English Baccalaureate (EBac) offers a renewed rigour
Classroom Bullies
The teaching unions don’t care about teachers or children. They care only about themselves. The result is a broken education system
Free At Last
With the State System failing our children, only free schools can provide an affordable, quality education for all
Give Them the Facts
The education system’s emphasis on skills and “learning to learn” denies the truth that acquiring knowledge teaches children to think
The Kids are Not All Right and I Am Angry
Thrown out of her school after addressing the Conservative Party conference, this teacher explains her change of mind
Will the green agenda be killed off by the pandemic?
‘Will the green agenda be killed off by the longer-term coronavirus recovery? Or might the closure of so much business, and the cleaner air that results from planes not flying and factories not working, give us extra years to gain control of our environment?’
Why T.S. Eliot still matters
His contemporaries’ reputations have diminished. But Eliot’s has grown: he is the poet who shows us what can be saved from the ruins
Music’s in the house
Rappers have found a role in lockdown: chronicling coronavirus with topical tunes. Most people, though, are rushing to the safety of the past