All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
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Education: Freedom or conformity?
While the right fights culture wars in our schools, teacher ROBERT POOLE asks would their time and money not be better spent on helping our young people?
A police officer outside Pimlico Academy School, west London, where students have staged a walkout in protest over a school uniform policy that they claim is discriminatory and racist
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
ALLISON FEWTRELL on what Plaid Cymru's historic election victory means for the communities being failed by Wales’s housing crisis, and four things the new government can do right now
France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
AS LOCKDOWN starts to ease up — for everywhere other than my home town of Bolton that is — the Tories have decided that there is one group of people who need locking up. Children.
The Department for Education is spending £10 million on new “behaviour hubs,” having a crackdown on mobile phones and threatening to keep kids in school from 8am till 6pm.
It is unsurprising that this creeping authoritarianism comes from an education secretary who keeps a whip on his desk.
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