Melissa appears in the Reasons to be Cheerful podcast: YOU’RE NEVER TOO OLD: a lifelong learning revolution. Continue Reading
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Women on the verge: Melissa Benn on Beatrix Campbell and Laurie Penny
Prepare to be depressed. We are living through the “end of equality”, the once-celebrated advances of feminism going into dangerous reverse. End of Equality Beatrix Campbell Seagull Books, 134pp, £6.50 Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution Laurie Penny Bloomsbury, 288pp, £12.99 Beatrix Campbell, journalist and activist, working-class radical and feminist, now in her later sixties,… Continue Reading
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THE CRISIS OF THE MERITOCRACY
The crisis of the meritocracy: Britain’s transition to mass education since the Second World War PETER MANDLER, 2020 Oxford: Oxford University Press 361pp, hardback, £25, ISBN 9780198840145 Cambridge historian Peter Mandler has a fundamentally optimistic story to tell about the growth of universal education in Britain over the last seventy years and one can sense… Continue reading…
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Politics, Education and the Media
On November 24th at 7 pm at the Holborn Union, Melissa will be talking at the LSE’s Holborn Union about Politics, Education and the Media. The event will take place at Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE. Details to follow. Continue reading…
