Has The G7 Lost Its Way?
The G7, having started out as a useful and slightly unusual body with a clear and relevant agenda, is becoming more like a mini-UN. If we want to listen to discussion of…
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Easier exams will only worsen our poor record on foreign languages
As it is, accompanying a UK visitor to any university or other organisation on the Continent is a shaming experience. Most organisations there take it for granted that a…
One law for MPs, another for everyone else?
In the twentieth century we worked long and hard to get rid of privileged castes and reach the position where anyone, plutocrat, pauper or politician, was entitled to the…
The Tories Attempt to Make Marriage Weaker Than a Phone Contract
There’s more to this than the curious blindness of our highly susceptible Chancellor, who is coming to look more and more like his impressionable lightweight equivalent in…
The UNs Unaccountable Incursion into Britains Social Policy
It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that this Committee, like so much of the UN, is simply desperate to impose on the world its view of Scandinavian-style eco-Socialism,…
The Labour Party’s worrying plans for higher education
The Labour Party are seeking to put their ideological mark on the higher education system. Opposed to competition, in favour of identity politics - these ideas should worry us…
The politicisation of UK advertising
UK advertising has witnessed an insurgence of political ideology which now flexes its muscles in banning adverts it deems offensive or stereotypical. It is surely unhealthy in…
UK universities struggle to instill LGBT wisdom in Dubai – who’d have thought it?
Despite Dubai being a well-known Islamic state, UK universities saw no difficulty in trying to ensure that LGBT policies were reflected on campus - until they couldn’t. But…