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7+ hour, 40+ min ago (592+ words) Farage has given the Conservatives an opportunity and they have to seize it hard and fast Reform on the back foot, Burnham selling mood music with no money. A Conference coming where Farage’s was partially derailed, and a Budget to…...
John Bald: Gove has brutally highlighted the 'toxic nonsense' at the heart of the teaching of education
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (244+ words) John Bald is a former Ofsted inspector. He is Vice-President of the Conservative Education Society. Michael Gove’s comments on Hilary Cremin’s Rewilding Education are the most critical I’ve ever read about a book. Her lumping together of the enlightenment, modernism,…...
Georgia Gilholy: The Assisted Dying Bill has a dangerous reality beneath it
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (653+ words) Georgia L Gilholy is a journalist. Today, Brontë’s semi-autobiographical protagonist might simply have been offered death as a remedy for her mental distress. Belgium legalised euthanasia in 2002 for adults suffering from a serious and incurable medical condition causing “constant and…...
Burnham is less 'same-same but different' - as same same same
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (1162+ words) I was in Thailand twenty five years ago when I first came across one of my favourite phrases. My mum, a teacher, had taken a role in private school in Bangkok and moved out there with my stepfather and brother....
Like most other recent PMs, Sunak got to the top without serving a proper apprenticeship
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (1222+ words) Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister? by Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton This book makes one think the better of Rishi Sunak. We are reminded of his high gifts and honourable conduct. Here is a statesman who felt a…...
Kimberley Harmer: Escaping domestic violence people can get out and the bruises fade - but the words don't
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (1524+ words) Kimberley Harmer is CDG national Deputy chairman, CPF Regional Ambassador for Humber and Yorkshire, Senior Caseworker for Charlie Dewhirst MP. and a VAWG & Gender Based violence Advisor. There is a sentence that many survivors of domestic abuse understand instinctively: “The…...
Liam Halligan: We have to get out of this high-debt, high-tax, low-growth doom loop
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (1093+ words) Liam Halligan is an economist, author and broadcaster and the newly announced Director of the Centre for Policy Studies. I’m a natural optimist – and remain convinced that Britain is still a great place to live and work. This country still…...
Do Reform want to win?
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (597+ words) As is almost always the case, I was, yet again, proven right. In all honesty, it’s fast becoming a trend that I am growing tired of. Repeatedly, I have to shoehorn ‘I told you so’ into conversations at the pub....
John Oxley: British education isn't so much leaning in the PISA rankings - it's learned to fall over
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (387+ words) John Oxley is a consultant, writer, and broadcaster. His SubStack is Joxley Writes. If Shakespeare were a political commentator, he might have observed that the bad things governments do live after them, and that the good is oft interred with…...
David Barton: Placemaking and its key role in communities
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (621+ words) There is so much that can be done now, such as the production of Neighbourhood Plans. The post David Barton: Placemaking and its key role in communities appeared first on Conservative Home....