Harry Hudson

In defence of teachers

From our UK edition

Enough! Does no one have anything nice to say about our schools? If it’s not headlines about monstrous behaviour driving teachers out of the profession, or apparently rampant wokism colonising our classrooms, then it’s Bear Grylls opining that modern education is ‘boring’. The respective merits of these claims aside, if you listened only to these

Could Trump save the capital letter?

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Irrespective of whether Donald Trump ends up being a two-term president, surely no modern political figure has done more to raise the profile of the capital letter. Joe Biden, in contrast, does not seem as enamoured with his caps lock button as the current Tweeter-in-Chief. No more FAKE NEWS, WITCH HUNT or MAKE AMERICA GREAT

The festival where Henry VIII and Francis I made their peace

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This week marked 500 years since the beginning of the two-week festival of jousting, feasting and general splendour that came to be known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold. Henry VIII, accompanied by a retinue of more than 5,000, had set out across the Channel from Dover for the small town of Guînes.