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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.

An essay is presented on the role of upper-class alumni of public schools, or elite private schools, in Great Britain's participation in World War I and on how that role has been characterized in British academic and popular culture, as of 2013. The author takes issue with the frequent depiction of uncaring and incompetent upper-class officers as responsible for the deaths of lower-class soldiers. Works cited include "The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public School Ethos" by Peter Parker.

The challenge posed to humanity by artificial intelligence (AI) will be much harder to solve than global warming. It is an excellent and timely piece of analysis by Daniel Susskind, who with his father Richard wrote the seminal The Future of the Professions (2015), which explored the impact of digital technologies on employment in the professions. Though the AI-informed technologies of the future will not take over all jobs, they will adopt more and more activities currently performed by humans, leaving the remaining roles only for the most highly skilled: "as we move through the 21st century, the demand for the work of human beings is likely to wither away, gradually", he writes. [Extracted from the article]

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.

The author offers opinions on education in Great Britain. It is argued that schools and universities are failing in their primary mission of facilitating academic achievement by students because of a paradoxical overemphasis on the tests and examinations which it is said have mistakenly been seen as an indication of a student's actual knowledge.

Discusses the courses of actions that the British Conservative Party must take in order to recover from the electoral defeat it suffered in the hands of the Labour Party on May 1, 1997. Causes of the Conservatives' electoral defeat; Radical action needed by Conservatives to revitalize the party.

The author presents an open letter to Ed Balls, shadow chancellor of Great Britain's Labour Party, urging him to resign. He argues that Labour leader Ed Miliband would benefit from Balls' absence, and that by resigning Balls would make it possible for Labour to present itself to voters as a party rid of factionalism. He suggests that Balls consider teaching or writing a book during his hiatus from politics.

In this article the author describes events that befell him during a period in late 2007. He describes the furor that surrounded the publication of his biography of former British prime minister Tony Blair. He records the criticism leveled at the book by Ed Balls, an adviser to prime minister Gordon Brown. A trip to Israel to attend a conference is described.