Quite right!: Katharine Birbalsingh interview
Best of the Spectator
- Published
- July 28, 2026
- Duration
- 55:00
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 13, 2026
Discusses daily, society, culture.
Summary
Katharine Birbalsingh is the founder and headmistress of Michaela Community School in Wembley, and has been dubbed Britain’s strictest headteacher. Under her leadership, Michaela has become one of the country’s most successful state schools, while openly challenging the progressive orthodoxies of the British education system.On Quite right!, Katharine arg…
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Katharine Birbalsingh is the founder and headmistress of Michaela Community School in Wembley, and has been dubbed Britain’s strictest headteacher. Under her leadership, Michaela has become one of the country’s most successful state schools, while openly challenging the progressive orthodoxies of the British education system.On Quite right!, Katharine argues that ethnic-minority pupils do not need to see themselves reflected in every aspect of a culture to feel that they belong – and that sugges
Themes
- daily
- society
- culture