David Kynaston

Was the closure of the grammar schools really such a tragedy?

Peter Hitchens is in no doubt that it was. But a dominant, self-perpetuating meritocratic elite, all head and no heart, might also have presented problems

Anthony Crosland, the Labour politician responsible for the controversial Circular 10/65. [Getty Images] 
issue 21 January 2023
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  • A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System

    Peter Hitchens

    Bloomsbury Continuum, pp. 218, £20

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