From the onset of socialism, it clearly reduced the opportunities of the most exceptional. This may be illustrated by its effects on the fa...

copy of a letter to an academic We never get a break, which is not surprising as modern society is geared against ability. There has been...

I am reposting this piece from August 2010, in the light of the recent Daily Mail investigation by Tony Hazell that the government will not...

Today there was a programme on BBC Radio 4 entitled: Intelligence – born smart, born equal, born different According to the Radio Times , ...

My colleague, Dr Charles McCreery, has been a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London for a Oxford and Cambridge Club at dusk...

It seems the government is planning to update the law on child abuse to include ‘emotional cruelty’ as an imprisonable offence. Changes to ...

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...