While all of good faith on the left should wish the new party well, ANDREW MURRAY pinpoints some of the major challenges it will need to grapple with as it approaches its founding conference later this month
Richard Garner: one of Britain’s education greats
Former Mirror journalist and education correspondent for The Independent, who was the life and soul of the conference circuit
Richard Garner worked for the Mirror and was education correspondent for The Independent
TIM LEZARD dissects the motives behind the apoplectic right-wing attack on the BBC
Western nations’ increasingly aggressive stance is not prompted by any increase in security threats against these countries — rather, it is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK
NICK MATTHEWS recalls how the ideals of socialism and the holding of goods in common have an older provenance than you might think
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IN the early 1990s, the Daily Mirror ran a story contrasting the squalid state of Britain’s schools under education secretary John Patten and his department’s swanky new offices in Westminster.
The new lodgings, at Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, were costing £12 million in rent, and featured an atrium with foliage hanging from the ceiling to the ground floor.
The following day, Richard Garner, the journalist behind the story, received a phone call from a DfE official.
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