This speech by the new leader of Brighton and Hove Council gives a taste. It will be no easy task in the present conditions but I wish him a...

Here is the evidence of the Holland Park headteacher's rush to academy status. Note the lack of any attempt to acknowledge that there ma...

I heard today at the SERTUC Conference on Academies and Free Schools that parents at Holland Park School in Kensington and Chelsea got a let...

I must start with a confession:  I worked as a volunteer a 'free school' back in the early 70s. The school was an ordinary terraced ...

Things are moving fast. The press are reporting that David Cameron and Nick Clegg are trying to finalise changes to their NHS plans...

DON'T MISS THIS FRIDAY 10 JUNE: STAND-UP FOR LIBRARIES A fantastic line-up of brilliant comedy to raise funds for Brent SOS Librar...

Jonathan Neale's Willesden Green Library talk on Monday evening stimulated a good discussion there, and afterwards in the hospitable Ris...

A new Tax and Financial Transparency Bill, which could help the UK recover billions of pounds of lost tax by forcing companies to be more tr...