Evan Smith (Flinders): Conflicting Narratives of Black Youth Rebellion in Modern Britain. You pay your taxes, or go to prison — unless you are super-rich, or a corporation. Latin and ancient Greek are making a comeback in British state schools and helping improve literacy levels; Harry Eyres welcomes the return of the classics’ rich mix of culture and philosophy. A review of Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts by Clive Bloom. "Do we really need a Supreme Court?": A lecture by Lord Hope of Craighead, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Simon Head on the grim threat to British universities. Mill, Smith and Friedman, look away now: Coalition plans to marketise the academy are a corruption of laissez-faire ideology. Nick Clegg tells David Goodhart how he shrugs off the cries of “Judas” and accepts that “you often cannot defeat emotion with reason”. When the accent is on creating a good impression: Young British Asians are changing the way they speak in formal contexts, according to new research. A review of Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action by Sean Birchall. The Blair Hitch: Debating Tony Blair in Toronto, Christopher Hitchens finds the former prime minister battered but unapologetic. A review of The Big Society: The Anatomy of the New Politics by Jesse Norman (and more). An interview with Mary Warnock: "The 'big society' doesn’t speak to me. It doesn’t speak to anyone". A review of Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life In England 1918-1963 by Simon Szreter and Kate Fisher. Could it be that UK governments have just been looking for allies in the wrong parts of the European continent?
