Exam fiasco shows a complete disregard for teacher integrity
'Computer knows best' approach sees hundreds of thousands of A level awards downgraded.
RAPD
16 Aug 2020
News Archive
Has Truth been the key casualty of the Boris Johnson Premiership?
The key danger Boris Johnson poses is to the concept of objective truth. The analysis in the press of his first year in power has mostly treated him as a standard prime minister living through extraordinary times - the Brexit fight, coronavirus, his own health problems. But in fact he is not a normal prime minister at all. He is a post-truth prime minister. That is the quality which defines him and presents the core threat to the country under his administration.
ID
27 Jul 2020
'Time for 20' in Starkholmes, Derbyshire
'Nobody wants to see accidents in Starkholmes, least of all a fatality' says Lib Dem County Cllr Sue Burfoot.
SB
27 Jun 2020
Spot the Problem
You can't always get what you want.
PD
12 Jun 2020
The End of Local Government?
Many county and district councils will be effectively bankrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. That means central government will have to choose how much local government it wishes to maintain and pay for. It may choose to move services outside of the democratic sector, with the council tax being expanded to pay for them, and to run them without what it sees as the unnecessary burden of council bureaucracy.
HS
8 May 2020