The fact that this post is being done on June 11th pretty much indicates how my month of May/June have been going. I feel like I am swimming underwater and I have not really had time to come up for air...however, it has been fun and full of friends...
Donald Rumsfeld's Amnesia
View image | gettyimages.comYou might have thought that Donald Rumsfeld would at least have the decency to keep quiet. Having wrought such damage upon the Middle East as the result of his ill-considered and misconceived policies, he could...
Education is failing poor, white, working class boys
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan hasn't yet explained why she thinks Academies are the answer to failing schools. In fact, of course, they are an ideological expedient with very little educational thinking behind them. the ones we...
#the56 SNP MPs - could they be Commons reformers?
The problem for the well-publicised SNP #56 is that they actually have very little to do for their constituents in the Westminster parliament. The meaty stuff, the legislation that affects the people who voted for them, actually goes through...
School history at GCSE is about to be wrecked. Should we care?
Education change is both a vast area and a small one. Macro change concerns the very nature of our schools, their funding and their set-up. Micro change concerns those small things that go on within a curriculum or inside the school. ...
The untimely death of an under-estimated politician
It was shocking to hear of Charles Kennedy's death this morning. There was no warning, no expectation, and the man was only 55. How could he suddenly not be here? If we who merely know him from the outside think that, how...
The One Nation PM
David Cameron announced that he would be a "One Nation" prime minister, and in both outlook and practice he would appear to be fulfilling the role he has set out for himself.Although he has indeed appointed a more Thatcherite cabinet than his...
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