A fairer funding formula, better behaviour, fluency in numeracy and literacy, a richer National Curriculum, better exams: these appeal to voters’ innate common sense.
We don’t need a European solution; we need a global solution. We must think independent Anglosphere, not dependent Eurosphere.
Think of it as being like the Activity Points offered by the official Conservative Campaigner app, except these ConservativeCoins actually have utility and purpose.
The EU is willing to deploy both clarity and menace in its dealings with us. This might once have been avoidable, but we must now do likewise in return.
Of course, mistakes are made, and governments get things wrong – but there is also a duty to make sure that the good gets out into the public sphere too.
The area has faced years of neglect from both establishment parties in Scotland, and that is why I was elected.
New polling on behalf of the Centre for Social Justice and Family Stability Network helps to highlight what young people themselves are asking for.
A new, diplomatically-phrased but still damning enquiry by the Foreign Affairs Committee throws light on the Government’s failures.
Let’s remind ourselves of a few occasions where the letter of the law has been lacking the odd dot or crossed T.
I suggest exploring the possibility of categorising self-employed work into two categories – self-employed work, and agency-supplied self-employed work.
This approach fully honours the referendum result. The UK would leave the EU in a manner that minimises disruption.
We can’t depend on the Government or internet providers to empower young people to use the internet safely.
France spends far more through its mixed system, and doesn’t have our problem with queues. Why won’t we learn from our European neighbours?
By April, about 1.4million non-EU migrants and students will have been given unlimited access to the NHS for a pittance.
In his second piece on Higher Education, the former Universities Minister looks at how they might be tweaked – and why the alternatives are reactionary, expensive or both.