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Pecksniff: Already the polls move " will we all become "Burnham's people'?
21+ hour, 11+ min ago (1140+ words) Andy Burnham. Image by UK Parliament via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 4. 0) Rafael Behr wrote this week of a "goodwill drought" in British politics. But it seems people just tend to like Andy Burnham, or perhaps they are determined to give him…...
As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (675+ words) It's something most of us simply accept. Large supermarket, hospital and station car parks are designed to store vehicles, not to make life comfortable. But what if they could do more? Imagine canopies stretching across rows of parked cars. In…...
Seeing the student: how special support brings school success
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (755+ words) When I taught Year 5, I had a student known as a troublemaker: difficult to teach, and unable to get along with others. Within a few days he was in detention with me at break due to an outburst in a…...
Young people are "out of work and out of sight
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (463+ words) The interim report, Young people and work, led by the former Labour Minister, Alan Milburn, is a sobering read for all of us. The few pages of the Review section are enough to give any reader the key statistics and…...
The graduate job market is grim right now " but university is still worth it
1+ week, 1+ day ago (428+ words) Worried graduates. Picture by Preepik Spend ten minutes talking to a soon-to-be graduate about their job search and you might come away convinced that a university degree has become a confidence trick. But two things are happening at once. The…...
SEND in the clowns
1+ week, 1+ day ago (819+ words) Children's Services Scrutiny Committee. 7pm, room 4 B, which smells of old carpet and whatever they serve in the canteen on Tuesdays. I'd been doing deliveries until half five " nothing dramatic, no dhal incidents, though I did have a tense moment outside…...
Social media ban for children may not be enough
1+ week, 4+ day ago (711+ words) The Government's plans to ban under-16s from social media have been welcomed by many parents, but leading Cambridge researchers have warned that the policy alone is unlikely to solve the problems associated with young people's online lives. Keir Starmer announced…...
Two years in, the fall of a tragic hero
1+ week, 5+ day ago (830+ words) A tragic hero is destroyed, not by bad intentions, but by a fatal character flaw. Starmer has done many things we wanted, but despite admirable aspirations and considerable success, he has been brought down by his inability to tell the…...
Has any company held this much power for 400 years?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (616+ words) Image by Space X via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) In 2025, Space X had a market share of around 75% of everything humanity sent into space, according to calculations led by Dr Alessio Terzi from the University of Cambridge's Bennett School of Public Policy....
Reform's defence proposals spark human rights concerns
1+ week, 6+ day ago (468+ words) Composite image: Nigel Farage by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2. 0); Zia Yusuf by Z979, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Under their policy, the only way in which soldiers would be prosecuted is if the Defence Secretary "personally authorises it. In other…...