MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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CONRAD LANDIN recommends a journalist’s account of reporting on the ‘war’ between government and educators for three decades
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
The Thirty Years War: My Life Reporting on Education, by Richard Garner (John Catt, £13)
BRITAIN’S education system is perhaps the thing our rulers are least prepared to leave to the experts.
This is, of course, nothing new. The genesis of mass schooling did not take place in a political vacuum and nor did the 1944 Education Act, nor still the introduction of comprehensives.
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