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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.

Katharine Birbalsingh tells retailer its Christmas ad featuring celebrities’ seasonal peeves will stifle children’s happiness

Katharine Birbalsingh criticised Marks & Spencer for releasing an advert that shows celebrities shunning traditional Christmas festivities

THE woman known as Britain’s strictest headteacher has penned a bizarre letter to Marks and Spencer’s criticising the retailer for…

Former social mobility tsar Katharine Birbalsingh says proposals come amid fears English state sector is catching up

Freedom of information requests show such was haste to open new schools unsuitable buildings were purchased without checks for asbestos or concrete

Britain’s most high-profile head teacher has accused Labour MP Jess Phillips of “racist and bullying behaviour”. 

Rishi Sunak is reportedly unhappy as Prime Minister: I am not surprised. He is too shiny — possibly even too idealistic— to appreciate the novelistic possibilities of decline. It seems unlikely that he will be a successful Prime Minister — 13 years are stacked against him, alongside the furies of…