Focus on abuse of women not welfare
Sometimes hell – or in this case, England – does freeze over and one…
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Lessons from the Library
There are few things we British love more than to see one of our…
Labour isn’t working (hard enough)
Rising youth unemployment, impending triple-dip recession, falling standards of living, the severely disabled stripped…
Delusions of Empire
All Empires like to think their colonial subjects love them. Which is why the…
Who’d be a School Governor?
Ofsted head Sir Michael Wilshaw doesn’t so much tread on toes as stomp on…
The world according to Gove
It’s hard being a visionary. Just ask George W Bush. You come up with…
But what about the kids?
England’s teachers are unhappy? Miss, Sir, join the crowd. From the young unemployed, half…
Looking for the “real” UK?
The phone rang about an hour after I’d completed my online order. The woman…
The perfect public library
I have seen a future for the public library – in the centre of…
Ofsted and the teaching unions: The kids deserve a truce
Why can’t teachers and school inspectors play nicely together? In theory they share the…