Monthly Archives: February 2011
It’s the teaching, stupid
Why – I ask myself at infuriatingly regular intervals – in our chastened economic times, is Michael Gove spending money (and so much time) on such a speculative, long-odds, hit and hope punt as free schools? Let us assume the … Continue reading
Filed under Conservatives, Free Schools, Michael Gove, Policy, Politics - general, Schools, Uncategorized
Cameron’s privatisation plan is big society by coercion
For those of us who think this Government’s direction of travel on public services is the political equivalent of going for a midnight drive the wrong way down a dual carriageway with car lights turned off and eyes scrunched firmly … Continue reading
Filed under Cameron, Conservatives, Policy, Politics - general, Schools
Cameron should embrace his inner socialist
Wandering around The People’s Supermarket the other day, in (yet another) attempt to make it clear what he means by the Big Society, the Prime Minister, with cameras whirring and microphones in range, let something slip. It happened when he … Continue reading
Filed under Cameron, Conservatives, Policy, Politics - general
This Government’s not for turning
Another day, another sharply performed about turn by the Government. This time it was funding for debt advisers, re-instated after charities highlighted the catastrophic effects on those who need a hand out of a financial mire, particularly those who were … Continue reading
Filed under Politics - general
A Gove poem
If I were the man that had to decide, from the list right at my side, the lucky schools that shall be built, I would make the call with a certain guilt. If I were the man that had to … Continue reading
Filed under Michael Gove
How abusing power can raise the spirits
Today, the High Court said Michael Gove’s decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future programme was unlawful and an ‘abuse of power’. A bad day, you would think: one which must have knocked the Education Secretary’s confidence? It … Continue reading
Filed under Michael Gove, Policy, Politics - general, Schools
Jabbed on the nose by Katharine Birbalsingh
Every now and then, you happen upon an argument so ridiculous that it resembles a jab on the nose – head spins, mind jars, words fail. This week, an article this week by Katharine Birbalsingh had just this effect. In … Continue reading
Filed under Conservatives, Michael Gove, Schools
