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The Tories stick their middle fingers to the education system
Teacher ROBERT POOLE reflects on a week so turbulent in Westminster it's provided a brief respite from unwanted interference in the education system — now if only Ofsted would go on an indefinite strike too...
There have been eight education secretaries since 2014 (from left to right) Michael Gove, Nicky Morgan, Justine Greening, Damian Hinds, Gavin Williamson, Nadhim Zahawi, Michelle Donelan and James Cleverly
Despite new European arrests, the evidence presented so far fails to explain the sabotage of the undersea pipelines – and veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s allegations of US responsibility cannot be easily dismissed, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY
As President Javier Milei is set to unveil a radical rollback of Argentina’s labour laws, unions warn of an unprecedented assault on workers’ rights, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
AT time of writing, though this may change by the time this is printed, we have had three education secretaries in three days — that makes eight since 2014. In fact, when I started writing this we were on education secretary number seven, Michelle Donelan, but such is the speed at which politics happens these days my original article was defunct before the metaphorical ink was dry.
Alas, you will not get to hear many of my thoughts on the two-day minister, a former marketing executive for World Wrestling Entertainment — her qualification being that she was used to working with overpaid fakes mired in scandal and so would fit in well with Johnson and his band of bootlickers and toadies.
After being in the job for less than two days Donelan clearly saw which way the wind was turning and jumped ship. I’m looking for a wrestling pun here but feel like I’d be grasping.
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