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Chris McGovern: School closures are a victory for the unions. What can be done to help the children catch up?

A start can be made by cutting back the forthcoming Easter break and by shortening the summer term holidays.

By Chris McGovern | 6 January 2021 | 12 comments

Ben Monro-Davies: “I think when women cry, often they are angry.” On this day, 30 years ago, Margaret Thatcher resigned

At the final meeting of her Cabinet, a revived Iron Lady told members, during a coffee break, that “on no account must Heseltine be elected”

By Ben Monro-Davies | 22 November 2020 | 32 comments

Our survey. Is the Cabinet, which must wrestle with the Coronavirus, fit for purpose?

Four in five of our party member respondents say yes. Hunt is top choice to come in from outside – but there’s no strong support for any non-member.

By Paul Goodman | 5 May 2020 | 204 comments

Budget 1) This was less a Conservative Budget than “the People’s Budget”. From a Vote Leave Government – not the usual Tory one.

It may be necessary, given the Coronavirus, and could even work. But Britain has a long, long record of state spending failing to turbo-charge growth.

By Paul Goodman | 12 March 2020 | 151 comments

Neil O’Brien: Fifty shades of conservatism

It’s a bit like the roof of Parliament’s Westminster Hall: which is held up by a lot of huge, ancient beams all resting on each other.

By Neil O Brien MP | 7 October 2019 | 48 comments

Robert Halfon: Thatcherism was wrong. We need to build social as well as economic capital. Including in our schools.

Educational traditionalists are wrong to believe that if we focus on academic rigour and high standards alone, everything else will fall into place.

By Robert Halfon MP | 13 February 2019 | 69 comments

Iain Dale: As I prepared for my Question Time debut, I heard that Diane Abbott had pulled out. Was it something I said?

Plus: May in trouble and Rudd in danger over Windrush. Corbyn stumbles. The pound rises. Local elections loom. And: the dignity of Neville Lawrence.

By Iain Dale | 20 April 2018 | 72 comments

London’s local elections. Beware of spin.

The capital isn’t a single political entity. Rather, it is still in some ways a Napoleon-of-Notting-Hill-style mass of small towns.

By Paul Goodman | 7 April 2018 | 79 comments

John Bald: Progressive educationalists ignore how the brain works

The evidence of improved standards shows that a knowledge-rich curriculum is the best way to enable each person to achieve the best of which he or she is capable.

By John Bald | 6 November 2017 | 58 comments

Technical education. Who’s right – Gove or Baker?

The reality is that most of it will be concentrated on pupils older than 16 – whatever the best age may be at which to select.

By Paul Goodman | 22 February 2017 | 19 comments

Cameron, radical punk – how he should want to be remembered

The recently departed Prime Minister is re-emerging – and working on his memoirs. He will want to project his greatest achievement: public service reform.

By Paul Goodman | 26 January 2017 | 153 comments

Andrew Kennedy: Home lessons in why democracy matters from Latin America

I hope that in the electoral battle that lies ahead ahead, a fresh-faced volunteer will stand on the streets of Quito, and pose questions in a refined Liverpool accent.

By Andrew Kennedy | 5 December 2016

Andrew Kennedy: Who were the best Conservative Party Chairmen in modern times?

Lord Woolton (pictured right) was the greatest-ever, rebuilding the Conservatives after the war. But here are my favourite five.

By Andrew Kennedy | 21 November 2016 | 23 comments

John Bald: How Ken Clarke battled the Blob as Education Secretary

He was quick to detect rubbish and obfuscation – both of which he rightly identified as the stock in trade of his civil servants.

By John Bald | 8 November 2016 | 11 comments

Martin Parsons: We must end the prejudice against secondary modern schools

The statistics actually suggest that, nationally, students of a similar ability do better in these schools than in comprehensives.

By Martin Parsons | 25 September 2016 | 54 comments

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