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I write about schools; Co-editor: 'The State of Independence' | The Critic | CapX | The Oldie | The Idler | TES. 'Schools of Thought' (Bloomsbury) out now.

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This was in the print edition of @TheCriticMag @TheCriticBooks but now it's available online: my review of Ian Leslie's book on Lennon and McCartney: A fine bromance
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Excellent piece by ⁦@tomowolade⁩ in the ⁦@Telegraph
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I think all royalties for A Salt Path should be donated to a hospital for a neurological department and call it the Moth Wing.
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This is a brilliant piece of writing, a gentle impaling of an impressive and outsized ego.
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My profile of Wasfi Kani, the inimitable queen of country house opera, is the cover of this week’s FT Magazine. Run, don't walk!
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@CamCavendish⁩ summing up what the majority of the country is feeling.
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Teach First brand that helps top graduates into poorest s.
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This exhibition in Porto's Natural History Museum is perfect: clear labels without any lecturing, clearly designed, right down to the light fittings.
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Can't wait to see what the users of Third Space will make of all the new members.
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It can't go on. It will go on. 'Migrant deal latest: Starmer says ‘situation in Channel cannot go on’.
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If, as I do, you read The Guardian and the Telegraph every day you get a sort of bipolar depression, both equally demoralising and filled with gloom.
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10 days
This is how to arrive at an airport.
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Just move The Salt Path to the fiction section. Sorted.
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Britain’s Prime Minister Is Fading Away via @NYTOpinion.
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RT @GBNEWS: ‘Private schools are private businesses, they open and close all the time.’. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson defends Lab….
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A brilliant Substack on ageing by @mrianleslie this week. I'd fogotten this simple, but intensely sad and moving line which he quotes.
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A lovely, family run school closes. Labour MPs will be delighted by the loss of jobs, a business closing and children having to find new schools.
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I'm glad they're turning things around but this is worth reading to get a sense of what schools would look like if Peter Hyman was advising the PM. Oh, wait. Progressive torchbearer School 21 rated 'good' by Ofsted
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