Renewing the BBC
At last, Lord Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust, has said it. The BBC…
Author: Claire
Lessons from the Savile saga
(First posted October 2012) Stoke Mandeville hospital is being urged to open one. The…
Don’t mention the C word
How should we deal with our remnants of Empire? Some (the Falklands, Gibraltar) cling…
The Playing Fields Myth
Find me the 2012 Olympic medallist who owes their sporting success to wet afternoons…
Going for (Economic) Gold
I never had any doubt that Danny Boyle’s Olympic celebration of proud, multi-cultural, contrarian…
Goodbye Bush House
Long before globalisation, there was Bush House. Home to the BBC World Service –…
Letter from Spain
If, as Mahatma Ghandi said, “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats…
Phailed School Policy?
Why is Education Secretary Michael Gove setting children up to fail? His highly prescriptive,…
The not-so-Big Society
Who’s in charge of Britain these days? I don’t mean who’s in power, or…
Posh Lunch: Social graces for social mobility
The excited Year 3 children began by introducing themselves to each other. They’d already…