James Tooley

When 'white privilege' doesn't count

6 April 2021 6:37 pm

First off the blocks criticising Dr Tony Sewell’s report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities was Professor Kalwant…

How Philip Larkin f****d me up

20 April 2019 9:00 am

I first came across Philip Larkin’s poem ‘This Be the Verse’ when I was 18 in the late 1970s. You…

Low-cost private schools are transforming lives in the third world

21 April 2018 9:00 am

Private schools in the United Kingdom are affordable only to those on the highest incomes. But surprisingly to many, this…

Our browbeaten universities

16 September 2017 9:00 am

Are university vice-chancellors paid too much? The government clearly thinks so, and is planning to fine universities that can’t justify…

A lesson in bias on private schools

21 March 2015 9:00 am

What aid experts and academics don’t want to hear about private schools in developing countries

Malala for free schools

9 November 2013 9:00 am

It’s not state education but private education she’s fighting for – so why doesn’t the media admit that?