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Guess who dropped by?


to my signing at Blackwells at Labour Party Conference yesterday? Yes, the great man himself, plus fellow authors Owen Jones and Rowenna Davis….. although I didn’t get a chance to discuss with Ed the merits – or otherwise – of academies and free schools….Of course, that’s why we are still smiling….. 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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A Cold War Tragedy

Melissa will be in conversation with Anne Sebba about her new book, ‘Ethel Rosenberg – A Cold War Tragedy.’ Weds 15th September 2021, 5-6pm, in the Robert Graves Tent at the Wimbledon Book Festival. More information here.   Continue reading…