
Prime Minister Challenged To Make Public Reply To Chief Inspector On Grammar Schools
The Prime Minister's reply to my September letter can be seen here. The letter fails to answer the fundamental issues raised by her policy to extend grammar schools. In more than 50 years involvement in education I’ve never heard or read such a fierce public attack on an aspect of Government policy as that made by Michael Wilshaw on Theresa May’s grammar school policy on at least three occasions. Since the policy is very much her own, I think we are entitled to ask for a pub

Trump And Farage May Be Bedfellows, But Are They Really Populists?
It was enough to make you puke. There on our TV screens was Nigel Farage, the boomerang President of UKIP, his ego already over-inflated, getting a further boost from the cheers of the Trump rally as he declared “We took on and beat the Establishment and so can you”. The grin with which he responded to their applause looked like the wagging of a mongrel’s tail as it chewed the bone thrown to it by his master. Farage’s support for Trump was unequivocal, and placed him alongsid