Parliament is advertising for a new Black Rod
The job advertisement is at once both clear and coy. It states that the successful candidate will demonstrate “strong interpe...
Valentine’s Day may need to adjust to the times
I t is supposed to be the most romantic day of the year. On Valentine’s Day you typically take your partner by the hand throu...
London is ageing twice as quickly as the rest of England
Some londoners dream of retiring to cottages by the sea. But Nick Sanderson, the chief executive of Audley Group, believes th...
Is Sir Keir Starmer a chump?
Sir Keir Starmer KC is among the most successful British politicians of the past half-century. In just four years, Sir Keir t...
It increasingly looks as if Lucy Letby’s conviction was unsafe
IS LUCY LETBY guilty? The question has persisted since August 2023, when a jury found the nurse had murdered seven babies and...
Britain’s plan to shake up school inspections pleases no one
WHEN IT TOOK office Labour promised to “reset” relations with England’s unhappy teachers. Last autumn it earned a huge cheer ...
British “equal value” lawsuits have become an absurd denial of markets
The decision came, as awkward news tends to, late on a Friday. The employment court had been asked to rule not so much on mat...
Milton Keynes shows the rest of Britain how to grow
A school that has never seen children is a strange place. The carpets and walls are unnaturally clean; the building is eerily...
Oxford and Cambridge are too small
Two weeks ago few people had heard of Tempsford, a sleepy village of 600 people in rural Bedfordshire. But it is located hand...
Worries about Britain’s construction crunch are overdone
Sir Keir Starmer has promised to run a government for the builders, not the blockers. Certainly, the prime minister and his c...