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The government is pressing ahead with efforts to turn all state schools in England into academies run on a business…

Teachers reflect on the current state of teacher training and recruitment in England in 2017.it has been Confirmed This month…

Words matter, as a member of the audience at a recent talk called “What’s Wrong with People with Names?” pointed…

A large crowd gathered at the University of Dundee this week to hear three speakers speak against the plans. Below…

Amid the corruption and half-heartedness of much of the contemporary Anglo-Saxon establishment, there remains what Albert Jay Nock called “the…

182 years ago, in January 1835, the Airdrie Savings Bank opened its doors – then, and now, a locally run…

In the final days of the Obama administration, after eight years of unproductive “nation-building”, a very surprising series of events…

My interest in this topic, certainly a sensitive one in contemporary Scotland, was sparked by social media posts that were…

GIRFEC (Getting It Right For Every Child) is the Scottish Government's version of Every Child Matters. The name is funny…

In the July 2015 budget, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced “the great privatisation”. The sale of…