Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
Consign Ofsted to the dustbin of history, now!
The teaching watchdog was declared 'not fit for purpose' in 2007. The time has come to abolish it once and for all, writes BERNIE EVANS
TIME TO ACT ON PROMISE: Education secretary, Bridget Phillipson at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool in September
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
MUCH has been written about England’s teaching watchdog, Ofsted, in recent months, with the conclusion generally being that the obvious bullying by inspectors has to stop, and that its one-word judgements have to go.
A more sensible judgement, however, would be to say that Ofsted has never worked properly, too often the tool of government, too often responsible for inaccurate judgements, and in need, not of reform, but of banishment to the history books where it belongs.
Now we have what surely must be the final straw — even our myopic government cannot ignore the latest revelations about its failing schools inspectorate.
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Meanwhile, independent review finds Ofsted’s initial response to the death of Ruth Perry was ‘defensive and complacent’
