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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 [...]
Cheerio then…
This evening, Sunny Hundal, a staunch Labour supporter ever since he voted LibDem in 2010, tweeted a picture of me campaigning for London’s independent candidate Siobhan Benita. I can’t complain; it’s true. For the first time in my life – in 21 years of Labour membership – I am campaigning for a candidate who isn’t Labour. [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
It’s the cover up that gets them
In the court papers of the Charlotte Church case against News International (NI) we now have proof that senior NI executives decided that emails should be deleted in order not to be used against them in court. To their shame NI put Church’s mother under pressure in order to force Charlotte to settle out of [...]
First impressions are often correct
I suspect if there was an objective way of checking if first impressions were correct, the result would be massively positive. Over my far too many years one impression I have learned to respect is the one where I feel if my wallet is still in my back pocket as the then present company strikes [...]
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