Tuesday review Articles

Andrew Mitchell deserved to be sacked. Ofsted demoralises teachers. The energy companies have the best of intentions, and if you regulate the banks they’ll just move to Geneva. The players change, but the song remains the same: people in positions of power think they...

Would it not be easier, Bertolt Brecht once mused, to simply dissolve the people and elect another? German dramatists make unlikely political gurus, but Brecht’s fingerprints can be found all over Labour’s Next Majority, Marcus Roberts’ pathway to a parliamentary...

A confession: I do not really ‘get’ conference speeches. Like dubstep, it seems to mean a lot to a great number of people, but it’s all just noise to me. It seems to me, though, that the best guide to how much – or how little – it all meant isn’t in how we felt in the...

I went to a school that was majority Muslim. I also went to a school that banned the burka. Unlike in Birmingham, where the Birmingham Metropolitan College was recently forced to undo its explicit ban, my school banned the veil through inference; the uniform code was...