I shall start by making the provocative observation that the current debate on grammar schools, in Marxian terms, represents a fetish. If we can put aside th...

There is a charming tradition in the USA where in the run-up to Thanksgiving, one bird is chosen to be ‘pardoned’ by the President. I’m not sure quite what t...

Recently a local online newspaper in Kent published the dramatic headline ‘The Best and Worst Schools in Kent based on GCSE results in 2018’. It then proceed...

So, here is the problem: how do you allow all young people fair and equal access to an education that will enable them to fulfil their personal, academic, an...

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I probably eat too much of the wrong food and do not get enough sleep to optimise my cognitive capacity. I also know that these decisions are not the wisest ...

In a previous commentary piece I announced my separation from the world of evidence. I asked those who support selecting children by test at the age of 10 to...