John Bald: It is becoming harder for Leftist academics to attack phonics

Teaching children to spell is not an act of cruelty – they have a large smiles on their faces when they get something right.

Robert Halfon: What Hunt has done for the NHS, Hinds must do for schools. We need textbooks, not tanks.

Plus: beware of claims that we’ve reached Peak Corbyn. Don’t raise fuel duty. Scrap hospital car parking charges. And: Hands keeps his promises.

Danny Stone: How the Government can use education to tackle prejudice in prisons

A focus on formal qualifications is a good start, but surely any programme is incomplete if it doesn’t tackle the underlying drivers of hate crime.

Gyimah must look beyond universities to tackle student welfare challenges

From schools at one end to the job market at the other, many of the driving forces behind the campus mental health crisis aren’t vice-chancellors’ to solve.

Henry Hill: Leadership contest puts spotlight on Welsh Tories’ un-renewed Assembly group

Also: Grieve says Irish Sea border is ‘completely unacceptable’; Sturgeon reshuffles Cabinet as SNP delay flagship education bill.

James Bundy: The SNP are failing Scotland’s children

School standards have slumped. The one-size fits all approach of comprehensive education has let every pupil down. An overhaul is needed.

Scott Kelly: Technical education is still too narrow, and flaws in the apprenticeship levy are hindering progress

The Government must act now, or risk a generation of school leavers missing out on the opportunity to acquire technical skills.

Grieve is right. The logic of a Government defeat today leads to a change of leadership – and a general election

Neither Tory MPs nor voters want a poll, but a paralysed Government and Parliament would make one all but unavoidable long before 2022.

Robert Halfon: AK47s, pluralism, war, students, cigars – and I get high. What I saw amidst Kurdistan’s fledgeling democracy.

I hope that, one day, it is no longer just an autonomous region in Iraq, but gets the independence it deserves.

John Bald: Higher education should be free to everyone who gets the grades

Grammar school expansion should be focused on extending their sixth forms and opening them up to qualified entrants from other local schools to widen opportunity.

Dominic Cummings, NHS hero

The Vote Leave director is the onlie begetter of this cashfest. But we’ve said it before and say it again: Britain can’t tax its way to prosperity – or a better health service.

Iain Dale: Madeley thinks he got the better of Williamson. I beg to differ.

Plus: A crazy clergyman, a bonkers Imam, and unreason on obesity. Richard Holden’s innocence. And: I am ready for Desert Island Dicks.

Joe Baron: The campaign to tear down statues of British heroes is not about balance – it’s pure propaganda

It’s one thing to acknowledge the fact that all human beings are nuanced and flawed. It’s quite another to censor our past.

Alex Morton: Don’t review spending before first reviewing government – and how it doesn’t work

Its failures begins with the machinery of Government – the core civil service itself. This must be fixed.

WATCH: “This is proceeding at the proper pace” – Hinds denies that he is pushing too fast on T-levels

“We started this process a couple of years ago, there’s still two years and four months before teaching will begin”, the Education Secretary argues.