The 7 per cent problem: how to reform private schools
Under a “Fair Access Scheme”, all independent schools would accept a proportion of their intakes from low-to-medium-income families.
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Ghosts in the machines: the invisible human labour that lurks behind technology
At the AI: More than Human exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London, I spent a while playing with Aibo,…
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Chris Mullin: “I see Britain’s slow decline into irrelevance”
For more than 30 years, Chris Mullin quite fancied the idea of writing a sequel to A Very British Coup,…
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Commons Confidential: Boris the Brexiteers’ puppet
Held hostage by a Brextremist troika of Iain Duncan Smith, Priti Patel and Dominic Raab at the final-showdown leadership debate…
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Commons Confidential: Johnson’s ex unburdened
Marina Wheeler is, perhaps, more than anyone else, including screaming lover Carrie Symonds and repulsed cabinet ministers, in a position…
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In an age of intensified work, we should start politicising exhaustion
Last December, a typically 21st-century story appeared online. Jack Dorsey, the chief executive of Twitter, shared news of his silent…
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Why three viewings of Avengers: Endgame was nine hours well spent
Five hundred and forty three minutes. Nine hours. It’s around the time it would take you to fly from London…
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What the EU has learned from Brexit
This was Europe’s “Machiavellian moment”, the point at which a political order comes to terms with its own mortality.
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