13+ hour, 6+ min ago  (150+ words) England's student debt is staggering. It comes to "270 billion " that's larger than the budget for the NHS and two and a half times larger than the education budget. This arsenal of taxpayer-backed cash has seen the creation of 34 new universities…...

23+ hour, 37+ min ago  (790+ words) Don't let AI read philosophy for you'The Spectator Don't let AI read philosophy for you The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) once wrote that "[T]he man who feels himself drawn to philosophy must himself seek out its immortal teachers in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (253+ words) It's no wonder you see people neurotically clutching these devices all hours of the day Yet we might not be laughing for much longer, and'Private Eye'might be forced to jettison that column altogether, if we are to believe Jeremy Vine....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (305+ words) Campus anti-Semitism has been a problem for decades. It was a perennial when I was editor of the Jewish Chronicle, between 2008 and 2021. But it has transformed in recent years from a worrying issue that needed to be dealt with to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (303+ words) In spite of last month's Gorton and Denton by-election, an event which laid bare the dangerously fragmented state of the nation along ethnic and religious lines, this left-liberal sect is blithely carrying on, unaware or unconcerned as to the havoc…...

2+ week, 37+ min ago  (180+ words) Spectator Schools: spring 2026The Spectator Spectator Schools: spring 2026 In this week's Spectator Schools supplement, the Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie writes about the undervalued beauty of school chapels. "They are so often architectural gems,' he says, "masterpieces that stand alongside some of the…...

2+ week, 48+ min ago  (305+ words) He's 12 next month, my eldest son, but he's rejected the "movie night' party I've suggested, and he doesn't want any of his new friends from senior school to come for a sleepover. And I know why. Our television is a…...

2+ week, 46+ min ago  (193+ words) In my mind, there was always a sense of hubris in the air of our tucked-away offices at the Chronicle, Eton's main student magazine. As in many other domains of our school's life, we idly assumed ours was the first,…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago  (465+ words) When belts can only be tightened so far, parents need to get creative. Frankly, the only affordable ways of educating your children privately today are either: a) access to masses of inter-generational wealth (which'presumably you'don't'enjoy,'or you'wouldn't'have read this far) or…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (618+ words) So we have a large number of graduates unhappy about their financial situation. Since those graduates are potentially significant " especially to the Labour party " in future elections, politicians of all sorts are keen to respond to their complaints. This has…...