Jenni Russell

Articles by Jenni Russell

Results 1 to 6 of 6

When parents are a child's best teachers

  • 10 January 2005

Home education is booming. And it already saves the state millions of pounds. So why doesn't the government do more to support it? Jenni Russell reports

Who the hell are you?

  • 06 October 2003

Fly to America and your most intimate details will be filed and passed to the intelligence services. And the US plans even more alarming threats to liberty

How Lula put Blair to shame

  • 21 July 2003

Observations on leadership

Sarah doesn't go to school any more

  • 13 May 2002

Proposals to take a tough line on truants make good talking points for politicians; but they simply terrify Alison, mother of two teenagers. Jenni Russell reports

The secret lessons

  • 08 April 2002

Almost unnoticed, a revolution has taken place in state education. Thousands of parents, outside school hours, are paying for private tuition

Where the elite preens itself

  • 28 January 2002

The World Economic Forum or Davos (actually it's held in New York this year) brings together the world's wealthiest and most powerful people. But don't expect any insights

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

Vote!

Was the government wrong to sack David Nutt?

Suggest a question

View comments

© New Statesman 1913 – 2009

Tracker