David James
@drdavidajames
I write about schools; Co-editor: 'The State of Independence' | The Critic | CapX | The Oldie | The Idler | TES. 'Schools of Thought' (Bloomsbury) out now.
New, by me, in the @spectator: Labour’s end-of-year school report is dire spectator.co.uk/article/labour…
Britain’s Prime Minister Is Fading Away nytimes.com/2025/07/07/opi… via @NYTOpinion
Labour’s end-of-year school report is dire ✍️ David James spectator.co.uk/article/labour…
This article on working at an SEND school should be mandatory reading for everyone working in schools.
Why would you want to break the link between background and education? (A) it's impossible and (B) Surely you want parents to play an ever-growing and positive part in their children's outcomes. It's almost as if you don't know what you're talking about.
As the school year draws to a close, I want to say thank you to all of our incredible teachers, support staff, teaching assistants and school leaders. Your dedication to breaking the link between background and success for every child is at the heart of our Plan for Change.
No Welsh players in the Lions' line-up is a terrible indictment of how the game has been run, and run into the ground, by the WRU. But it symbolic of a country's decline: The slow death of Wales thecritic.co.uk/the-slow-death…
Excellent piece by @tomowolade in the @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…
I think all royalties for A Salt Path should be donated to a hospital for a neurological department and call it the Moth Wing.
This is a brilliant piece of writing, a gentle impaling of an impressive and outsized ego.
My profile of Wasfi Kani, the inimitable queen of country house opera, is the cover of this week’s FT Magazine. Run, don't walk!
@CamCavendish summing up what the majority of the country is feeling.
Teach First brand that helps top graduates into poorest s... observer.co.uk/news/politics/…
This exhibition in Porto's Natural History Museum is perfect: clear labels without any lecturing, clearly designed, right down to the light fittings.
Can't wait to see what the users of Third Space will make of all the new members.
It can't go on. It will go on. 'Migrant deal latest: Starmer says ‘situation in Channel cannot go on’ thetimes.com/article/a955b1…
If, as I do, you read The Guardian and the Telegraph every day you get a sort of bipolar depression, both equally demoralising and filled with gloom.
