BY JOE NUTT Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me is such an obvious truism, it rightly finds a perfect home in the pre-school playground where grazed knees naturally provoke more tears, than bruised egos. Yet in England, in 2025, you would be forgiven for thinking almost no adult elected to the Mother of all Parliaments now believes this. … Continue reading There are Lies, Damned Lies and Keir Starmer
BY JOE NUTT Centuries of Accumulated Soft Power is Being Trashed by a Single Spite-Fuelled Politician. In 1964 a Labour Party minister for education whose name is largely forgotten and truly deserves to be, so he’ll remain nameless here, instructed local education authorities to reorganise secondary schooling along comprehensive lines. Like dutiful sheep, they mostly did. Our current minister for education, Bridget Phillipson, is now … Continue reading Sacrificing the Best for Spite
BY JOE NUTT About a month before Keir Starmer’s now self-evidently delinquent version of the Labour Party secured the mother of all Pyrrhic victories in the general election, I published an essay in The Critic explaining how they would immediately dedicate their energy to attacking private schooling, just as Blair had done with fox hunting. I predicted that they would face a legal challenge rooted … Continue reading Labour’s Anti-Education Policy
