There was real anger in that voice. And with justification.  read more »

Sometimes it is nature that calls, not the chance of a more interesting conversation.  read more »

Michael Gove raises his concerns that fewer children from poorer backgrounds are taking science subjects and highlights fears that the science curriculum has deteriorated in general.  read more »

The greatest divide in politics isn't ideological, but tribal.  read more »

Michael Gove announces plans to reform the system of school testing by ending the practice of eleven-year-olds taking Sats at the end of primary school.  read more »

It's like finding Liam Gallagher tapping noisily at the no-smoking sign in a pub, or hearing Roy Keane deliver a school speech day address in which he explains that it matters not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game.  read more »

During all the time he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown notched up a significant roster of achievements, from frustrating Tony Blair's plans for schools reform to converting the party of James Maxton to the joys of the Private Finance Initiative.  read more »

I don't know whether it's in the Anglo bit, or on the Saxon side, but there's a chromosome somewhere in the DNA of the British that gives our bodies a very different chemistry from the rest of the world's.  read more »

Six decades have passed since George Orwell wrote his prophetically dystopian novel 1984 in a few short weeks of exile on the bleakly beautiful coast of Jura.  read more »

What is suitable Bank Holiday reading? Apart, of course, from the Motorists Atlas of Great Britain, the variable speed limit indicator on the M25 and the nutrition information listed on the side of a Ginsters' Savoury Brunch Bar?  read more »