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Schooling in Britain today is where medicine was in the days of bleeding and leeches. It is trapped in the past, between teachers wedded to their…

The royal family was always a disaster waiting to happen. Its creation as a marketable entity in the 1960s by the late Queen Elizabeth II was…

Party conference time is when British politics goes berserk. Leaders soar and crash in a morass of cliches. Polls go mad and cataclysm always delivers the…

Britain has made its point. We can do the past. The rest of the world may be more powerful and richer than we are, but only…

Tony Blair’s leaked presence at the recent White House discussion of Donald Trump’s “Gaza Riviera” plan is either good news or outrageous. Good news if he…

This was a good week to bury bad news. But why bury good news? No banner headline announced that the Prince of Wales is to move…

The renowned sportswriter Sally Jenkins is joining The Atlantic as a staff writer this September, where she will continue her exceptional and deeply sourced reporting. Jenkins…

The greatest failing of Britain’s schools is to teach children to read, write and count, but not to speak. They teach what technology can increasingly do…

What odds on a public inquiry into the Afghan superinjunction? Gold-plated, judge-led, three years of fun and games, that is how British politics normally kicks an…

Stop it now. Stop spending sums that you admit are out of control. Show common sense and send everyone home. HS2 is a bad joke, a…