When The Independent published Helen Coffey’s passionate eulogy for the semicolon – that misunderstood and underappreciated jewel of English punctuation – the reaction from our readers was ...

With that in mind, then, what shall we do to while away the many, many hours left in Covid-19 quarantine? Well, let’s take a trip down memory lane and flex our minds with an 11+ grammar test. First, ...

Yvonne Skipper received funding from the ESRC to conduct this research, which was part of a broader project exploring the impact of social influences on student learning. Grammar schools are never far ...