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A record number of graduates are planning to leave the UK, driven not by wanderlust but by frustration. A new graduate recruitment survey finds that...
This weekend, like thousands of others, I accompanied a sixth-form pupil on a university open day visit. It happened to be to my alma mater, Exeter....
There is an uncomfortable truth about the modern 11-plus that middle-class Britain rarely acknowledges: it is less simply an exam, more an industry....
There is a moment during every exam season when some parents lose perspective. Usually, that’s around the third reminder to “do a bit more...
There was something quietly radical in what Stanley Tucci told the BBC last week. The actor has long been a passionate advocate for food as one of the...
Barbecue season is here. Across the country, gardens have become arenas of ritualised male performance. Aprons, often sloganed, and occasionally...
Porn. Pornography. Do the very words make you uncomfortable? There is something very British about the way we discuss sex: nervous laughter and raised...
There is something quietly seismic about a change that does not arrive with a bang but a birthday. From this week, the state pension age begins its...
The Government said this week that children under five should face tighter limits on screen-time, with ministers warning about the impact of excessive...
There are certain numbers you expect to see on your payslip: tax; national insurance; hopefully a pension contribution. Recently, I noticed another....
Untold stress and sleepless nights: Bill Howell’s story, recently featured in The i Paper, about his struggles to find a full-time role after 30...
This week, Professor Adam Tickell, vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham, suggested something that was once unsayable in British education:...
Last week, I had one of the most intimidating meetings of my life – and I’ve met prime ministers, a US president – and once had one-on-ones with...
At moments this past week, British politics resembled the frantic WhatsApp group of a relegation-threatened football club’s hierarchy. Rumours flew,...