A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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There's a growing desire to throw off the rigid shackles of Tory educational dogma
Labour has opened up discussion around a national education strategy, and by engaging as a movement we can develop new radical ideas for the future, argues KEN JONES
Angela Rayner
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
ENGLAND’S school system, the product of the Education Reform Act (ERA), is 30 years old this year.
The ERA’s biggest claim was that it would raise standards. Through a mix of market pressures and state direction, it would deliver schools from the grip of ineffective teachers and incompetent local authorities. It would make England’s school system “world class.”
How are these claims looking now? From several perspectives, they don’t look too robust.
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With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
