Miriam Gross

What do #MeToo women feel about downtrodden husbands?

27 October 2018 9:00 am

Eight years ago, in the course of doing some research into literacy teaching in London, I visited many primary schools.…

Diary

10 June 2017 9:00 am

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

2 January 2016 9:00 am

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?

7 March 2015 9:00 am

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’

2 August 2014 9:00 am

I knew that the historian Sir Richard Evans was a rather abrasive and quarrelsome man, but I was staggered by…

Diary

29 March 2014 9:00 am

I had a slight shock last week, while listening to Desert Island Discs. The admirable nurse Dame Claire Bertschinger had…