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Every new British premiership is baptised in tears of joy and exultation. Glad confident morning! But all end in tears of sadness, anger and recrimination. The only issue is how [...]

Ever since Ramsay MacDonald headed the first exactly 100 years ago, Labour governments have begun with a bang and ended with a whimper. No bang was more instantaneous than Gordon [...]

J'Accuse! The guilty men and women of the Brexit debacle Roll up, roll up for the Brexit blame game, it's waiting to take you away. Not since Robert Walpole became [...]

Prime ministers all face a critical moment: before it, they can do little wrong; after it, almost nothing right. For John Major it was Black Wednesday in September 1992; for [...]

They died at nearly twice the rate of other British soldiers who fought in the First World War. Yet today, the common view is that deluded public school alumni were [...]

Five Year Mission: the Labour Party Under Ed Miliband Tim Bale Oxford University Press, 306pp. 10.99 £ No quality matters more in an author, at least in the eyes of […]

I spent all weekend clearing out the house in Buckingham with my three children. Joanna, my dearly loved wife, who died of cancer in 2016, never threw anything away. Knee-deep [...]

A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond Daniel Susskind Allen Lane, 336pp. 20 [pounds sterling] The challenge posed to humanity by artificial intelligence (AI) will be [...]

Education, Education, Education: Reforming England's Schools Andrew Adonis Biteback, 256pp, [pounds sterling]12.99 To observe Andrew Adonis as minister of schools between 2005 and 2008 was to witness a man on [...]

Your report of a discussion on mental health (BACP round table, 20 July) said 'schooling stuck out as a sore point'. You bet. The report did not mention the name [...]

The article discusses the political background leading to the referendum for a British exit from the European Union (EU), known as Brexit. Topics include public opinion about British Prime Minister Theresa May, British national identity in relation to social conflict regarding Brexit, and the lack of potential political leaders to serve as prime minister in the future.

Open up the private schools to the poor David and George Kynaston have written one of the most thoughtful recent contributions about private schools. Their question, why has the left [...]

Governments do not understand schools. They rarely have throughout history. They see education not as a means, but purely as an end, a process validated wholly by success in bad [...]

The co-author of 'Brown at 10' writes an open letter to the shadow chancellor: Dear Ed, I was not your headmaster, but as somebody who has written about you for [...]

William Hague must look to Disraeli to find out how to revive his battered party It is 125 years, almost to the day, since Disraeli, in his Crystal Palace speech, [...]

It's half-term and I am taking 15 colleagues from Wellington College to learn from great American schools. No sooner have we landed in New York than the texts and emails […]

The article looks at education in Great Britain as of 2014, focusing on private schools and inequality of educational opportunity. The author expresses the view that neither the Conservative Party nor the Labour Party has been willing to address the country's educational inequality and suggests a cross-party commission on the issue. He offers proposals including requiring private schools as well as top-performing public schools to reserve some places for low-income children.