Above all, they shouldn’t become preoccupied with Woke to the exclusion of everything else. This is the trap that many Labour backbenchers and much of the Left is falling into.
VAT on private schools will not make the poor richer but it will damage our country, our great institutions, many hard-working parents and many children who have been given scholarships.
The tenth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
The eighth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
The seventh article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
The sixth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
The comprehensivisation experiment begun by the Wilson government helped to bring down the curtain on an age of social mobility.
We kick off a ConservativeHome project on strong families, better schools and good jobs today – indispensable means of achieving a smaller state and a stronger society.
It represents a power-grab by town hall bureaucrats, an attack on families’ common-law rights, and an unworkable extension of the database state.
While Ofsted has expressed regret for the Perry case, it has not admitted that change is a matter of urgency. We must restore reports written in good, clear English.
How can a relative handful of active MPs have sparked so much concern amongst their long-dominant liberal colleagues?
Many voters want moral seriousness, most politicians have difficulty finding the language needed to provide it, but the present Prime Minister thinks he may be able to.
The report shows Caversham Primary School is a good school, and well led and managed. The use of discretion would probably have fixed the issue of an administrative oversight.
It is the tool we need to give both families and schools an incentive to engage with the urgent question of what third-party providers are peddling to young people.