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
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?