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The hotch-potch of local school management allows central government to pass the buck over the Raac concrete crisis, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan
The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
CJ ATKINS argues that despite losing the election, Chile’s left remains big and organised and must unite to resist the new far-right government
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After years of austerity and denial under a new Reform UK council, a failing Send service was pushed into the spotlight by staff, unions and parents — culminating in a £1.3m funding boost and a 50% increase in front-line workers. MARTIN PORTER explains
THE key words in the schools concrete scandal are not “arses” and “fucking.” They are “responsible bodies.”
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan brought swear words into the heart of the debate when she was interviewed by ITV News about what the government was doing to stop post-war schools built with Raac “frothy concrete” from collapsing on kids’ heads.
After the interview Keegan blurted out a mix of four-letter blame and self-pity, saying: “Does anyone ever say: ‘You know what, you’ve done a fucking good job, because everyone else has sat on their arse and done nothing?’ No signs of that, no?”
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