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  • 16 Sep 2011
    British Quakers and private schools

    Much has been written today about Kweku Adoboli, the “rogue trader” who lost £1.3 billion of other people’s money. One fact that has received little attention is that he went to a Quaker school.

  • 10 Aug 2011
    Riots, looting and the hypocrisy of Boris Johnson

    The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, appeared on Radio 4 this morning (10 August) and was asked about the underlying causes of the recent riots. He attributed them to a “sense of entitlement” among young people who were showing the effects of a lack of discipline in school.

  • 22 Dec 2010
    Stark statistics reveal reality of class divide in higher education

    Pupils from fee-paying schools are 55 times more likely to gain a place at Oxford or Cambridge than those who qualified for free school meals.

  • 20 Aug 2010
    Government accused of insulting students

    The universities minister David Willetts has come under attack after telling students to lower their sights and apply to “less competitive” universities next year.

  • 6 Jul 2010
    Labour leadership candidates compete for Christian support

    All five candidates for the Labour leadership have placed a strong emphasis on “values” while pitching for Christian support at a hustings run by the Christian Socialist Movement.

  • 8 Jun 2010
    Cameron's cuts: We're not all in this together

    David Cameron has said the government's massive cuts will be delivered in a way that “strengthens and unites the country”. His words remind me of his colleague's George Osborne's claim that, when it comes to tackling the economic situation, “we're all in this together”.

  • 21 Jul 2009
    Social mobility and political inertia

    If there's anything more disheartening than this week's report on social mobility, it's the government's response to it. Their timid proposals for higher education are unlikely to do anything to challenge the way that the education system functions to maintain privilege and inequality.