Meet the strictest headmistress in Britain, Katharine Birbalsingh

“As a teacher, you’re not really allowed to be a conservative,” she told The Atlantic. She may not always vote conservative (she told me that she didn’t in the previous election, though she wouldn’t say whom she’d voted for). But she embraces the label of cultural conservative—“old-school, Black, small-c conservative,” advocating all manner of progressive taboos: hierarchy, personal responsibility, respectability politics.