What do #MeToo women feel about downtrodden husbands?
Eight years ago, in the course of doing some research into literacy teaching in London, I visited many primary schools.…
Diary
Hundreds of terrorists and suspected terrorists have gone through the British educational system. Yet amid all the pre-election talk about…
Miriam Gross’s Diary: the problem with Steve Jobs
Disappointingly, the recent film about Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, does not include the thing about him which most struck…
Miriam Gross’s diary: Why use Freud and Kurt Weill to promote Wagner?
Last week I went to the exhilarating English National Opera production of Wagner’s The Mastersingers — five hours of wonderful…
Miriam Gross’s diary: As a qualified teacher, I say let in the ‘untrained’
I knew that the historian Sir Richard Evans was a rather abrasive and quarrelsome man, but I was staggered by…
Diary
I had a slight shock last week, while listening to Desert Island Discs. The admirable nurse Dame Claire Bertschinger had…