Category Archives: Viewpoint

A really worrying start to 2011… maybe they just don’t want to learn

Posted on January 1, 2011 by PinkPolitika

Education in England appears to be undergoing not so much a policy review as sporadic and random assault, if recent decisions by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, are any guide to what’s happening. First we have the school sports fiasco (personally … Continue reading →

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A ‘new culture’ of giving – but what dignity in receiving?

Posted on December 29, 2010 by PinkPolitika

We learn today (29 December 2010) that cash machines are to be one of the delivery points for the Government’s ‘new culture of giving‘.  Apparently 8% of the UK population currently ‘gives’ 47% of the cash (wouldn’t it be good … Continue reading →

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Local government in all its ‘former glory’…?

Posted on December 17, 2010 by PinkPolitika

Local Government Minister Grant Shapps‘  letter in The Guardian today (17 December 2010) refers to the Government’s Localism Bill as a vehicle which ‘will restore local government to its former glory’, and thereby deliver the Big Society. But what sort … Continue reading →

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