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Cynical Starmer sees votes for 16-year-olds as a reward for obedience
Keir Starmer’s capacity for flip-flopping on every significant political issue makes it difficult to say for sure what Britain might look like should…
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Joanna Williams
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The NHS has forgotten its real purpose
As doctors down stethoscopes and walk out of hospitals in their ongoing strike for better pay and working conditions, the public might reasonably…
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Joanna Williams
The fall of Russell Brand is no victory for women
Our attitudes towards sex have changed profoundly over the past two decades – and not always for the better.
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Joanna Williams
The Censorship Bureaucracy
Behind faceless policies on everything from emotional health to diversity, equity, and inclusion lies an impulse to control language—and thereby…
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Joanna Williams
How museums lost their way
What’s the point of museums? According to researchers at the University of Leicester, museums should help children explore their gender identity…
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Sunak needs to pick a side in the gender debate
The government's cowardly refusal to tackle gender ideology in schools speaks volumes.
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Joanna Williams
The hypocrisy of Birmingham’s council
Birmingham Town Hall from Chamberlain Square via Wikimedia Commons Who is to blame for Birmingham City Council’s dire financial situation? The council…
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Why England’s schools are crumbling
The RAAC crisis proves that education is among this government’s lowest priorities.
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Joanna Williams
August 2023
What I read in August
I began this month by reading Free Your Mind by Laura Dodsworth and Patrick Fagan. This book expands upon the valuable insights Dodsworth’s previous…
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We need to calm down about the World Cup kiss
Luis Rubiales’s overexciteable behaviour has unleashed a tidal wave of hysteria.
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The hollowing out of higher education
Universities are trashing the very subject knowledge that makes doing a degree worthwhile.
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What I read in July...
I can’t possibly do justice to the breadth of scholarship and depth of argument in Christopher Lasch’s The True and and Only Heaven, Progress and its…
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