With apologies to any American readers out there, a couple more notes on my bemusement of the sheer zaniness of British politics: The Government pontificating on the need to listen to professionals when it comes to the police, while doing the exact opposite in the far more complicated field of medicine. Labour legislating to prevent… Continue reading More ironies
Author: James Graham
Loading the dice
Over at the Apollo Project, Peter links to an interesting article about selection in secondary education, and its inherent randomness. It isn’t clear in the article, but the local authority it refers to could well be Bromley, where I grew up and attended the Grammar. Either way, it certainly reflects my experience, where it did… Continue reading Loading the dice
Time for the Blairs to go
I’m certainly not the first to say it and I certainly won’t be the last, but it’s time for Tony Blair to go. Time too for Sir Ian Blair to shuffle off as well. There is no question that politicians ought to listen to what the professionals have to say, but that doesn’t mean that… Continue reading Time for the Blairs to go