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The difference a few years make
These last few years have changed us in so many ways. One that’s noticeable is that subjects which were once toxic to mention politically are now accepted by a larger section of the public. An example would be tax. Polls suggest that a majority of the public would like to see higher taxes on the [...]
Best Wishes to All on May Day
I wish all the readers a happy May Day.
Education and Equality Part 2.
In Part 1 of this article my conclusion was that comprehensive schools had hurt social mobility because middle-class parents were deserting state education and sending their kids into some form of private education. I didn’t want to give the impression that’s all well in our comprehensive schools, it’s just that there may be reasons other [...]
A US View of Leveson
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Education and Equality Part 1.
There are problems in our education system. Social mobility has been hurt by the ending of grammar schools. More top jobs are filled by public school kids than ever before. Kids leave school without being able to read and write and having poor arithmetic skills. European immigrants are preferred by employers to British kids. Teachers [...]
We believe him don’t we children?
From the Independent.
The Empire Strikes Back
What a strange couple of days. The Dirty Digger’s evil empire flexed its muscles on Sunday, but by Monday the Beeb had made some more, and by the looks of it, extremely serious problems for them. There has always been a suspicion that News International (NI) holds back from exposing all the peccadilloes they discover [...]
They still don’t get it.
“They still don’t get it.” I don’t even know who the phrase belongs to now. Cameron and Miliband throw it at each other in parliament, but if there is one group that still doesn’t get it, it has to be our political class. Let’s take two of today’s morning papers, the Telegraph and the Sun. [...]
The Americanization of British Politics
The old joke was knowing when a politician was lying by watching for any mouth movement. In recent history it’s not a joke anymore, it’s the accepted truth. It would be easy to blame it on the MPs’ expense scandal, but I think it goes further back than that. As Peter Oborne, from a right [...]
Should Mulcaire be offered immunity?
The Leveson inquiry is in part two of its three parts and now is looking at the corruption of public officials by the press, and this time it seems mainly by Sun journalists. The suspicion has to be that the Metropolitan Police Service was being corrupted by its links, financial and otherwise, to News International. [...]
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