Anthony Boutall

Anthony Boutall is an Assistant Headteacher in a grammar school and Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute.

Articles

Culture

Young people need culture, not condescension

It is easy to scoff at the middle-class pretensions of Canterbury Cathedral’s current graffiti display. As Joseph Dinnage, the deputy editor of this publication, notes on X, it looks as though the cathedral has been turned ‘into a South London youth club c.2005’. The style of the temporary graffiti they have plastered on the ancient […]

Growth

How to make Britain optimistic again

Exactly 42 years ago this week, Ronald Reagan stood in a grand hall at the University of South Carolina, confidently telling new graduates that ‘[there] are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder’. Since that moment, the world’s GDP has increased […]