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Fragmented education sector, crumbling schools
The hotch-potch of local school management allows central government to pass the buck over the Raac concrete crisis, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE key words in the schools concrete scandal are not “arses” and “fucking.” They are “responsible bodies.”
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan brought swear words into the heart of the debate when she was interviewed by ITV News about what the government was doing to stop post-war schools built with Raac “frothy concrete” from collapsing on kids’ heads.
After the interview Keegan blurted out a mix of four-letter blame and self-pity, saying: “Does anyone ever say: ‘You know what, you’ve done a fucking good job, because everyone else has sat on their arse and done nothing?’ No signs of that, no?”
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