There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
What is the point of the government’s schools white paper?
Instead of listening to teachers, the bureaucrats and politicians have proposed yet more platitudes and targets that will do nothing to solve the real problems within education, writes LUCY COLEMAN
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
IF EVER educators needed confirmation of how out of touch the Department for Education is with the reality of education in Britain, then the recent schools white paper would surely be it.
Sadly, it’s not surprising that the white paper falls far short in terms of any promising changes to education policy, nor does it offer any significant additional funding.
The plan comes with a pledge of £5 billion, which is far short of what is needed to address the serious shortfalls in education funding and is only a third of the recommended figure for education recovery from recovery tsar Kevan Collins.
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Although our sector is hearing better things from the current government, the recognition that what we do is education in its own right, rather than just childcare, is still not reflected in policy, writes LUCY COLEMAN
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