Leaf Arbuthnot
Teacher training is a mess. Everyone suffers
Trainee teachers face a fragmented, messy system, fail to get the mentorship and support they need, and end up desperate to leave
Labour plays the blues
Restoring the party’s working-class roots means battling Boris Johnson—and the tide of history
Pastoral passage
Radiant description, linguistic precision and super-saturated dreamscapes in new collections by Matthew Francis and Stephen Sexton
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts