Joanna Gray thinks votes for 16 year-olds is a great idea. After all, Gen X, Millennials and Boomers have messed everything up. And if you speak to current teenagers you'll quickly realise they see through the crap.
Why is the modern world so unremittingly ugly, wonders Joanna Gray. As yet another interchangeable block of beige bricks springs up in town, the contrast with the glories of the structures our ancestors built is damning.
Forget Keir Starmer's Modern Industrial Strategy waffle, says Joanna Gray. As someone who works with young people, this is what they need right now – and it's not AI, 'green jobs' and even more imported workers.
Deep England still exists and it can and must be visited, says Joanna Gray. The official fête season has begun, where England and the English are best viewed in their modest, decent, summer apparel.
Joanna Gray says she was too kind to describe schools as institutionalised childcare. The reality is even worse. Often they're just a holding pen, or even a pre-custody suite.
After 14 years of schooling, Joanna Gray argues that her son's paltry academic gains reveal a deeper truth: schools are less about learning and more about socialising and keeping children occupied so that parents can work.
It's not 'CSE'. It's child rape, says Joanna Gray. Enough with the sterile acronyms that seem designed to conceal the horror. Enough of the "bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language" (Wittgenstein).
As girls gear up to go to university this autumn, boys are dragging their feet, says Joanna Gray. With many university courses now filled with women, are boys self-excluding from this female-dominated world?
People who want to understand teenage boys would be better off watching The Inbetweeners than Adolescence, says Joanna Gray. It captures perfectly the best and worst of adolescent boys in the pre-smartphone age.
Peter Hitchens is right, says Joanna Gray: labelling a child as 'dyslexic' only means they give up trying to read. We think we're helping by giving them 'support' but all we've done is undermined their confidence.
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