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Tristram Hunt

Tristram Hunt is director of the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is a former Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central and a former shadow education secretary. 

May 2015

  • Matt Kenyon swingometer

    Labour must understand the scale of its defeat. But we can and will rebuild

    Tristram Hunt
    This election has been a tragedy for Britain: the party has to learn from the SNP that politics isn’t a public policy seminar but an emotional and cultural force

April 2015

  • 'Creative Brian', a 25ft aluminium walk-through head designed by British artist David Kemp, introduc

    Creative Schools review – we need to call time on exam-factory education

    The shadow secretary of state salutes Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica’s powerful manifesto which opposes standardised testing and calls for a more inspirational approach to teaching

February 2015

  • The Minton majolica elephant.

    Empire and elephants: Tristram Hunt on how the Victorians sculpted for Britain

    How did the Victorians celebrate the might of the empire and the march of modernity? By bringing sculpture to the masses. Tristram Hunt MP revels in the Tate’s compelling new exhibition

January 2015

  • Students in a geography lesson at a London secondary school.

    Schools need freedom to thrive. Labour will offer it

    Tristram Hunt
    Tristram Hunt: Radical reform of Ofsted, with its relentless box-ticking and political agenda, is the first step towards a fairer system

December 2014

  • 2015

    15 things to look forward to in 2015

    Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet, smartwatches, the return of the Large Hadron Collider, the rugby World Cup in Britain, a flood of classic drama on TV and a critical climate summit – some of next year’s highlights

November 2014

  • Harrow pupils

    Private schools have done too little for too long

    Tristram Hunt
    Tristram Hunt: Under a Labour government, the independent sector will work for the common good or lose its tax breaks

October 2014

  • Katrina Chisholm teaches a maths class at Ravenswood Community Primary School in Ipswich, Suffolk

    Why Labour would give teachers a break

    Tristram Hunt
  • ‘The government has lost sight of what really matters in education: quality of teaching and strength of leadership’: David Cameron at the Conservative party conference, 1 October 2014.

    All David Cameron has left now is abuse

    Tristram Hunt

September 2014

  • Nicky Morgan

    Nicky Morgan isn’t ‘continuity Gove’ – she’s even worse

    Tristram Hunt
  • A demonstration of hand painting a china plate Wedgwood visitor centre Barlaston Stoke-on-Trent

    The Wedgwood Museum is an ode to Britain’s industrial past – we must save it

    Tristram Hunt

August 2014

  • Children in a British classroom in the 1940s

    Only Labour can finish Rab Butler’s education reforms

    Tristram Hunt
    Tristram Hunt: The 1944 act failed to provide comprehensive education. Seventy years on, this is the historic wrong that Labour is determined to right

June 2014

  • micheal gove

    Don't be distracted by the Tory turf war – Michael Gove has questions to answer

    Tristram Hunt
    Tristram Hunt: The education secretary was warned about the hijacking of Birmingham schools four years ago. Why didn't he do anything?

April 2014

  • An Ofsted banner at Adderley primary school in Birmingham

    Birmingham's schools must prepare pupils for a multicultural Britain

    Tristram Hunt
    Tristram Hunt: Good schools succeed when they reflect, and are part of, their communities – but they have to avoid becoming cultural silos

March 2014

  • Illustration by Andrzej Krauze

    School inspections must be free of political meddling

    Tristram Hunt
    Tristram Hunt: Michael Gove's intimidation of Ofsted shows that the system has to be clearly independent. Too many heads have lost faith in the quality of inspectors

January 2014

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany with the 5th Earl of Lonsdale in 1906

    Michael Gove, using history for politicking is tawdry

    Tristram Hunt
    Tristram Hunt: The British left supported the 1914-18 conflict – which was far more complex in its origins than the education secretary's simplistic assertions admit

December 2013

  • London students examine their GCSE results

    The London Challenge is a lesson in how to turn around poor pupils' lives

    Tristram Hunt
    Tristram Hunt: A Labour policy that has improved results in many London schools should be rolled out to failing shires. Instead it has been abandoned

November 2013

  • michael gove pupil

    Education Under Siege: Why There Is a Better Alternative by Peter Mortimore – review

    Tristram Hunt on an outspoken study of British schooling – and 'the aggressive ideological zeal and pugnacious point-scoring' of Michael Gove

September 2013

  • disraeli film

    One Nation
    Ed Miliband's one-nation message still resonates

    Tristram Hunt

    Tristram Hunt: The Labour leader's concept of a society beyond the confines of the market challenges traditional social democratic ideas

August 2013

  • Statue of Oliver Cromwell

    Rereading
    Tristram Hunt: rereading God's Englishman by Christopher Hill

    Oliver Cromwell: radical hero or bigot and murderer? Christopher Hill's study of Cromwell – a man at the centre of English history – is a triumph of complex interpretation and delicious prose.

June 2013

  • Germany - Karl Marx 125th obit - Busts of Karl Marx

    Book of the week
    Karl Marx: a Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber – review

    This biography by Jonathan Sperber is a brilliant embedding of Marx in his times, writes Tristram Hunt

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