Our deputy editor argues that the whole point of free schools and academies was fostering a more diverse school system, and that requires that individual schools be allowed to enforce their own vision and values.
All politics, and not just that with a religious flavour, rests on a foundation of essentially pre-rational beliefs each of us has about right and wrong and how the world ought to be.
There is too much empire-building, mission creep, time-wasting diversification, and gasping to catch up with transitory trends.
Events in Parliament Square, and the blockade of Tower Bridge last weekend, are simply the latest manifestation of extremism on display since 7 October attack on Israel.
Whilst the clergy can’t wash their hands of their role in appearing to facilitate “industrial scale” conversion to game the system, it is the Government that sets the rules of the game.
Our deputy editor and the former leader of the Liberal Democrats discuss the merits of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s intervention against the Rwanda scheme.
My son went to bed last week asking: “Daddy, why does everyone hate us?” No child in a civilised society should ever have to ask such a question.
We inhabit an impoverished media landscape marked by outrageous soundbites and ahistorical canards, as much as regards the present as the past.
While the free school programme did much to inject fresh ideas and investment into the school system, it is a source of great sadness that the Catholic Church in England has not been able to take part in this flagship policy.
Ministers who have had 13 years to enact change prefer to sound off about problems as if they were in Opposition.
New research for Power to Change finds that progress on the Government’s agenda has been patchy, and voters have noticed.
From the ballooning power of progressive HR politics to the growth of de facto blasphemy laws, thirteen years of Conservative rule have made little impact.
Much as with Lee Anderson and the death penalty, her candidacy puts the spotlight again on the question of major strands of public opinion which are deeply under-represented in public life.
The Department for Education and Government Equalities Office must have a contingency plan available to deploy immediately, updating the necessary guidance to ensure that schools can remain true to their ethos.