Opinion: Government’s fuel top-up advice has been a serious miscalculation
My heart sank when I heard Ed Davey telling the nation to fill its petrol tanks. It seemed very likely, tipping over into obvious, that Ed Davey’s statements would feed into the kind of behaviour that...
View ArticleOpinion: GCSEs? O-levels? Open your minds!
Consider a vocational subject – dentistry. It leads to a job and requires hand-eye coordination and knowledge of tools and materials. To be good at it, you must prove your interpersonal skills. A major...
View ArticleOpinion: Who cares about the environment? The coalition doesn’t seem to
Sunday’s Observer features two related stories (Revealed: how water firms are polluting our rivers and beaches and Ministers putting seas and marine life in peril) which suggest that the coalition does...
View ArticleOpinion: Don’t like the exam question? Just cross it out…
The place of religious schools in a secular society is always a subject for debate, but it comes to a head when you discover that some schools are redacting questions in GCSE exam papers because they...
View ArticleOpinion: How about a cross-party declaration on an EU renegotiation and...
One way or another, there’s going to be an EU referendum, and we must not just let it happen. Pressure is mounting on David Cameron to move before 2017 and on Ed Miliband to shift from a perfectly...
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