Articles in the media commenting on education tend not to make clear the distinction between correlation and causation. For example, a re...

Teachers and social workers should tell people that they are bad parents and to stop failing their children, the head of Ofsted has warned. ...

This was first published in September. I am re-posting it in connection with an article about a new book on near-death experiences which app...

text of a letter to an academic Throughout my life my problems have all arisen from the same cause: the hostility of the increasingly domi...

In view of the current debate about the possible cutting of benefits to pensioners, I thought it worthwhile re-posting this piece from 2010....

The late Professor Hans Eysenck once told me about an experiment in which a population of rats was divided into ‘bright’ and ‘dull’ on some ...

There is a cruel pretence that the outcast professor (me) is not suffering from being deprived of an institutional (i.e. hotel) environment ...

Recent statements by Michael Gove (the Education Secretary) and Andrew Hamilton (Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University), among others, seem t...

A property has just come on the market in Cuddesdon which would be suitable for us. I have previously suggested that buying a house in th...

Recently, both Michael Gove and Boris Johnson have raised the question of innate IQ, breaking the usual taboo on the topic. Mr Johnson has...