Strictly Education

Andrew Tate is vile, but boys aren’t following him by accident. For years, schools and the wider culture have told boys that masculinity itself is the problem. Gillette recast roughhousing boys as predators in the making, and classroom resources hold up boys interested in cheerleading as role models while saying nothing good about the rest. Toughness, competitiveness, and courage get lumped in with violence and misogyny, so Tate has stepped into the masculinity vacuum. Leave boys without good...

Diversity is not our strength. Shared values are. A football team doesn’t win because its players are different. It wins because they share a shirt, a manager and a goal. My parents, like most immigrants of their generation, came to Britain with a sense of deference towards the country. Somewhere along the way, ordinary patriotism was replaced with white guilt, victimhood, and a left that calls everything racist while the right grows angrier in return. Follow the podcast so you don’t miss a s...

The left says French students are rioting over underfunded schools and racism. The right says the riots are the inevitable result of mass migration and far-left agitation. Both are missing something: French children of all backgrounds have been taught to see their own country as the oppressor. A distant school bureaucracy, a national mythology of rebellion, and a culture of white guilt across the West have produced young people who want to tear it all down. As always, our political problems a...

Is Rishi Sunak English? Konstantin Kisin says he’s British, but not English, and was accused of racism for saying so. Suella Braverman agrees she will never truly be English, while Shabana Mahmood says it never occurred to her that she isn’t. The media can’t stop arguing about who’s English and who’s British. However, the real crisis is happening in our classrooms, where children are taught to see belonging through ancestry and to feel ashamed of both English and British identity. Follow the ...

Education Secretary Michael Gove was hated for his school reforms in the early 2010s. He worked to bring back classical texts, rigorous exams, and real authority for teachers. Years later, the very countries his critics wanted us to emulate have gone from the gold standard to underperforming, while England has held the line. But that doesn't mean that all is well in English schools. Follow the podcast so you don’t miss a single episode! Pre-order Katharine’s new book, “Diversity Is Not Our St...