
Patrick Timms: Blame the unions, not teachers themselves, if our schools don’t re-open
With a ten-year background working in the education sector, I know that teachers are some of the most dedicated people you will ever meet.
With a ten-year background working in the education sector, I know that teachers are some of the most dedicated people you will ever meet.
The more of us that come out of the closet – the political one – the more tolerant and reflective our culture will become.
Building on May’s legacy will mean grinding, attritional work – which the hard left and extremist parties are neither interested in nor capable of doing.
The Shadow Chancellor responds to allegations from Lisa Nandy about the hard left’s conduct during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
Today’s choice is between Marxist extremists and a Conservative Government different from its predecessors only in that it wants to leave the European Union.
We economic liberals should be cautiously thankful for the stay of execution that his leadership and manifesto have given us.
In 2017, 51 MPs were returned with majorities of less than a thousand. That’s 51 results potentially determined by an extra hour on the doorstep,
In the longer term, the aim of the hard left is to increase the size of the ethnic community so as to cement left-wing power.
His attitude ought to worry us. I mean that literally. All these men believed that the end justified the means.
“Now I want a nice clean game from all of you” – so said Madam Hooch in Harry Potter. The reality is, it’s not going to happen.
Plus: The far left really has captured Labour’s conference; too many Conservatives misunderstand the Supreme Court; and my conference agenda.
Labour politicians pandering to nationalist sentiment, and Remainers colluding with separatists in Parliament, are a clear and present danger.
There are better ways to describe the problem of left-wing bias – such as what I would more accurately describe as identity politics, or postmodernism.
Tory difficulties are bound up with Brexit. Labour’s stretch wider, and are part of wider ones for social democratic and democratic socialist parties.
A wise US president with a clever plan would be able to reduce the risks. But this one may well squander the opportunity for a peaceful return to democracy.