Is Britain’s Strictest Headmistress a visionary or a tyrant? Many of Katharine Birbalsingh’s rules seem petty beyond belief – but she gets results. What does her approach tell us… а> By Hannah Rose Woods
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Music Thom Yorke’s the Smile sound a lot like Radiohead – and that’s no bad thing Ellen Peirson-Hagger
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Radio & Podcasts Radio 4’s Red Lines is a heavy-handed attempt to pin today’s crisis in Ukraine on squeamish MPs in 2013 Rachel Cunliffe
Books Reviewed in short: New books from Graham Caveney, Giles Tremlett, Charlotte Van den Broeck and Chitra Ramaswamy Sophie McBain, Jeremy Cliffe, Michael Prodger and Gavin Jacobson
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