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Liz Truss’s new Popular Conservatism movement appears to be divided before it’s begun. Plus, why culture wars are very tiring

Many who praise a headteacher for preventing Muslim prayers are oddly sanguine about the number of faith schools in Britain, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Where education is concerned, everything is about leadership. My family and I live in Tyburnia, just off Edgware Road. Twenty-two years ago we (well, my wife) started looking for a primary school for our two daughters. My wife soon found out about a Church of England state primary, Hampden Gurney,…

The modern world enjoys little more than dividing us and few feel that pull more strongly than young people. But education can be anathema to all that, a place where children of all backgrounds, abilities and interests can come together for the highest of purposes: learning.

Katharine Birbalsingh says she's 'nervous but hopeful' about outcome of legal challenge to school’s ban on prayer rituals

Ms Birbalsingh told The Sunday Times the school will ‘definitely appeal if we lose’

The decision by ‘Britain’s strictest head’ reflects a wider culture with a myopic view of what multiculturalism should look like, says teacher Nadeine Asbali

Headteacher of London school Michaela says policy is vital to ensure ‘children of all races and religions can thrive’

School has been subjected to violence, intimidation and racial harassment, says Katharine Birbalsingh.

Michaela community school, run by ‘Britain’s toughest headteacher’, Katharine Birbalsingh, introduced ban last March

Christmas ad campaigns have become headline-worthy moments in the British national calendar, hailed by pundits and awaited by an eager public. The fact that they are now teased, like big-screen cinema releases, is proof enough that, in calendar terms, the major-retailer Christmas ad is a seasonal event in itself.