Obama’s Success Welcomed In Britain
BBC TV’s weekly Question Time chaired by David Dimbleby is probably the most influential political programme on the box. On the last Thursday before the US presidential election, the panel included Jerry Springer and Professor Colleen Graffy, supporting Barack Obama and Mitt Romney respectively. The London audience was almost unanimously pro-Obama. This was surprising since [...]
Nothing Is Quite What It Seems In The Party Conference Season
HALFWAY THROUGH the life of this parliament, the autumn party political conferences revealed a sense of urgency kicking in as the parties jockeyed for position.…
Examination Results Provide Yet More Embarrassment
By John Polley THIS YEAR’S A Level and GCSE examination results provided plenty of food for thought. For the first time in 21 years there…
London 2012 Is A Triumph
THE OLYMPIC Games came to London heavily encumbered with doubts. They would cost a fortune in a time of economic misery. They would attract terrorism…
Coalition Coming Apart At The Seams
DAVID CAMERON and Nick Clegg took a bold step when they formed the Coalition Government in 2010. It was a union born as much out…
Rugby Post – England in South Africa
THE BRITISH teams’ summer tours down under started predictably badly – almost. England faced the Springboks in Johannesburg…
Teaching At The Margin
MY LATEST classroom is an odd place. It’s a Portakabin, a workman’s shack of the sort you see…
Britain Caught In A Financial Mess – Of Others’ Making!
THEY DON’T use chalk any more. Instead they have a white board on which the teacher writes with…
An Electoral Fiddle To Gain Independence?
A CONSTITUTIONAL issue and dodgy tactics are threatening the unity of the United Kingdom. In Scotland, Alec Salmond…
Reflections On Fifty Years At The Chalk Face
I HAVE just reached my fiftieth year in teaching, having started in Stoke Newington in September 1962, the…



