Our Courses
One-to-One or Group Tutoring for thoughtful young people
We run courses on:
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The Newsroom Weekly (Discussing this week's news)
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Economics Before A-level - a crash course for those considering choosing A-Level Economics
Click on the links for more details on each course offering. For booking and prices, click here.
Our courses are designed uniquely for you. Your interests, questions, and ideas guide what we discuss next.
Whether preparing for school exams, applying for Oxbridge, or simply confused and concerned by the daily news, The Newsroom helps you learn about the world beyond the silos of narrow school subjects.
Format: How The Newsroom Classes Works
One-to-One: Everything starts with one-to-one sessions with Emmett. You will talk together about what subjects you want to explore within the course you have picked, and you will help guide a learning journey that is uniquely for you.
Group Sessions: You can also join weekly discussion groups with Emmett and other young people who are interested in the same issues. For Group Sessions, the price is lower, and the likelihood of making new friends is higher.
The Newsroom Weekly
Understanding this week's news - Our flagship course
Each week, each day, the news comes in tidal waves. Teenagers, like the rest of us, see some of it in their feeds, maybe 20 seconds at a time, before the next reel takes them elsewhere.
In The Newsroom course, we pick a story for an hour or so. We talk about what version of it you have heard so far, if you have heard anything at all. Then we unpack, rewind, broaden and bring some context to the story – introducing whatever political history or economic concepts are essential for fuller understanding. We look at competing narratives, then we discuss and debate.
Over the last four years, for an hour and a half each week, I have held a space for teenagers to learn and talk about the unfolding events of our age. We discuss politics, economics, history, culture and media. We discuss topics on their minds, as well as the ones I bring.
Come dive into the latest news one-on-one with Emmett. Then later, once you are used to how we work, you may choose to join Emmett's weekly discussions with other young people.
A-Level Economics Tutoring
Economics in Political, Historical Context
Economics is truly relevant, compelling and alive when we discuss how it changes lives; when we study economic ideas because they shaped history and still shape the world today.
Learn these stories now, and you will use them to critically analyse news, political opinions and government policy for the rest of your life.
For example, if you want to truly understand Macro, you don't just need to be able to draw aggregate demand and supply curves for an exam. You need historical context. You should to be able to sit at a dinner table years from now and still be able to tell the story of the birth of Macro:
Picture the Roaring 20s, the Wall Street Crash in 1929, the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover scratching his head over 25% unemployment while Neo-Classical economists sit in his office telling him to just leave it be, "laissez faire", let the market adjust.
You can learn in a dry textbook about Fiscal Policy, unemployment and the pros and cons of Deficit spending... But what you really need is to picture President Hoover's comfortable Oval office, and then smash cut to the lived experience of millions of homeless Americans on dusty roads as captured by John Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. Then you understand why people voted for change, and why a new President needed new, radical economic policy.
You should watch President Roosevelt's inauguration speech promising the New Deal and to change America in the First 100 Days. "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." That is about announcing a new Keynesian Economics, upending a hundred years of orthodoxy.
If you truly know and understand these stories, it changes forever how you analyse every Chancellor's budget for the rest of your life, and then you have an opinion of your own.
Knowing these stories will also, incidentally, make you much better at exams. It's just more fun this way.
Economics before A-level
A crash course before you choose A-Level Economics
If you are considering choosing Economics as an A-Level, but have not studied it at GCSE, this course can help you make that decision.
Choosing an A-Level in a subject you have never done before is a big call. This course can help you make a more informed decision.
Why not try before you buy, and get ahead of your peers while doing it?
We will cover the basics in 8 weeks, give you a taste for the concepts, narratives and debates at the heart of Economics.
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Why is the stuff I really want so expensive?
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Who decides on prices?
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If I start a business, what decides if it makes money or not?
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What is Capitalism? The Free Market? Demand? Supply?
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How much tax do you think you should pay?
World Politics in 6 weeks
Why is the world as it is? How is it changing?
By the time the Department for Education has agreed what the school history books ought to say about this week's stories, today’s teenagers will be in their 20s.
This class will use the latest news as a lens to explore fundamental, structural realities at the heart of the global geo-political landscape.
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What happened in what country lately?
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What history do we need for context?
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What geography and maps do we need to picture as we talk?
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Which other countries are involved?
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What is the role of the UN?
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Why can't the United Nations stop the war in Ukraine, or Gaza, or Sudan, or other places? Then what's the point of the UN?
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How will President Trump's actions in Venezuela and beyond change the structure of the World Order?
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The 20th Century was the American Century. Are we now living in the Chinese Century?
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What is COP and will it actually shift the Climate Crisis?
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What we mean by authoritarian, populist, liberal or realist?
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What does it mean to say, "across the world, institutions are crumbling and strong men are rising"? Is that a bad thing?
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Does any of this make any difference to my life?
UK Politics in 6 weeks
Everything you need to know ahead of the next election
School doesn’t prepare you to be a voter. And 16-year-olds will be allowed to vote in the next UK general election. So we look at:
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Political Parties (what does Left or Right actually mean?)
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Politician Personalities
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Policies
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Polls
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Parliament
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First Past the Post
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...Does any of it actually matter?
Gaza, Israel, the West Bank and the World
How clear are you, really, on what is happening in the Middle East? How do we speak about it with empathy, compassion and knowledgable insight?
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Do you know your Hamas from your Hezbollah from your Haifa?
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Can you picture the map of Gaza, the West Bank, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem?
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What is the latest on the ceasefire and Trump’s 20 point plan?
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What is the wider context in the region: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iran?
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The Holocaust and the Nakbah: How do historical and cultural touchstones on each side shape the situation and the narratives today?
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What role did Britain and the USA play in the creation of the state of Israel?
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How does the issue of Israel and the Palestinians influence Britain and USA?
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What is the difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism?
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Where can we find hope for the future?
Ukraine, Russia and what it shows us about the World
What is really happening in Ukraine?
Three days after the start of the Ukraine war, I led our first class on this war. We have been regularly discussing it in The Newsroom ever since. We will look at articles, videos, and documentaries to contextualise the war, what it means for Ukrainians and Russians, and what it tells us about world politics and power for the 21st Century.
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This land is my land – the maps, stats and borders
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History of Ukraine and Russia before 1991 Independence.
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History of Ukraine and Russia after 1991.
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2014 - The invasion of Crimea
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2022 - The invasion of Ukraine
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Where are the battle lines and what is the state of the war today?
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Vlodomir Z vs Vladimir P
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How has this war changed Europe?
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What is the role of NATO?
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How much power and influence does Trump actually have?
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Will this war end? How and when?
