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Just when you thought all Amanda Spielman’s high-minded words about the importance of curriculum were going to be translated into a new [...]
January 31, 2019
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It has been good to find a quiet morning. There has been so much going on, in our lives and in those of the ones we love, that it has been hard [...]
January 30, 2019
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Psalm 28 is one of the “cursing psalms.” There are quite a lot of these sort of scriptures in the first half of the Book of Psalms [...]
January 30, 2019
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About 40 years ago, Wendell Berry wrote an essay called “The Unsettling of America.” It had an enormous impact on those who were [...]
January 28, 2019
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There have been many good reasons why I have not written for a couple of weeks, most of them to do with the writing process itself. Having now [...]
January 28, 2019
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I have been a lifelong advocate of comprehensive education simply for the reasons that if we are to create a country that recognises itself in [...]
January 13, 2019
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Just after Rehoboam, finding himself king of Israel following the death of his father Solomon, had been spectacularly unsuccessful in his change [...]
January 3, 2019