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Last night a smallish group of us who are committed to the work in Milton Keynes of the Chartered College of Teaching, met together to discuss [...]
March 29, 2019
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It has been a while since I have written about our lovely city, and although pictures of it do tend to feature a lot in my posts, right now it is [...]
March 28, 2019
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The first “well-established contrast” here is the approach to farming that has long been advocated by agrarian writers such as [...]
March 28, 2019
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I have written on this before, I know, but I am back reading Wendell Berry’s most recent collection of essays, and it is a recurring theme [...]
March 25, 2019
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Patriotism in the UK has been tricky to define recently. Bagged by the right as a concept, it has been, for reasons of empire, shunned by the [...]
March 25, 2019
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Had a fascinating conversation with a friend who used to work for the Local Authority about the nature of SEN support work last Friday. We got [...]
March 25, 2019
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I have been encouraged by a friend to read Amanda Spielman’s speech to the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), the union that [...]
March 20, 2019
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The longer I go on as a Christian, the more convinced I am that I snuck into the kingdom on the cheap, on a sort of evangelical bargain offer, [...]
March 18, 2019
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A very interesting evening in Putney on Thursday, which I would have commented on earlier but time ran away from me. Organised by the thinktank [...]
March 17, 2019
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Last year I made a comment to a colleague about the reputation of the Michaela School in Brent, reputed (and reported) to be [...]
March 17, 2019