Do unconditional offers really help A-level students?
Concerns are being raised about the dramatic rise in unconditional offers on A-level results day
Who is Philip Hammond to lecture Boris Johnson on Brexit?
There is a role in British public life known as the Elder Statesman – a former cabinet minister who dispenses…
If Boris plays the system on Brexit, Corbyn can hardly complain
A standard version of this autumn’s events is beginning to emerge. Labour brings a no-confidence vote in the Government on…
How renewable energy makes power cuts more likely
At 16 minutes past four on Friday a press officer at National Grid put out a tweet which seemed to…
Is Britain really heading for a Brexit recession?
The sense of excitement among some Remainers is almost palpable. Finally – after three years of waiting – a quarter…
Is the Treasury secretly trying to scrap cash?
It is three months since the former chancellor Philip Hammond backtracked and announced that the government would not, after all,…
The obvious failings of a ‘government of national unity’
So that’s that, then. Just as the backers of a ‘government of national unity’ appeared to have their tails up,…
Boris Johnson’s ‘million to one’ mistake
Boris Johnson’s premiership is in danger of being undermined by a single loose remark. No, not one involving burqas, Liverpool,…
The shameful targeting of black and Asian Tories
Just what would be it take for the Guardian to stop suggesting Conservatives are racists? We now have the four…
#AbolishEton is the perfect advert for private school
Until half past eight yesterday morning I was a little concerned for the future of private schools. They haven’t helped…
Boris’s critics are only making him stronger
If, as expected, Boris Johnson heads off to Buckingham Palace next Wednesday to become Prime Minister, I fear that a…
A weak pound is nothing to fear
Ed Conway, Sky News’s economics editor, tweets this morning that sterling has notched up a dubious record – it stands…
Where are the workers in the Extinction Rebellion protests?
How utterly predictable that Extinction Rebellion should have re-emerged this week to block streets with its boats. You just have…
Is Amber Rudd a hypocrite for shifting on no deal?
Amazing what a bit of discipline can do. No sooner has Boris Johnson warned that anyone who wants to serve…
Northern Ireland, gay marriage and the great liberal power-grab
Yesterday, the Welsh government announced new guidelines to make school uniforms gender-neutral, which would mean an end to trousers being…
What the Heck boycotters can learn from Boris Johnson
You can tell a lot about the Left simply by reading the list of subjects which are trending on Twitter.…
Is the National Trust’s fossil fuel divestment really that ethical?
I often see National Trust vehicles around my way – transporting animals, digging, cutting wood and constructing bridges and the…
Is the BBC’s salary splurge really a triumph for feminism?
What a great triumph for feminism – three of the BBC’s ten highest-paid presenters are now women, compared with none…
Jeremy Hunt’s foolish no-deal promise
As Jeremy Hunt has repeatedly claimed during the Conservative leadership campaign, to set a deadline of 31 October for leaving…
The media’s exploitation of this photograph shames the West
The deaths of El Salvadorian migrants Oscar Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria are, it goes without saying, a horrible…
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