Public Services
The Tories won’t let parents have a say in their children’s education
The evidence for sponsored academies improving performance simply isn't there - but that doesn't seem to matter
Annie Powell
What exactly does Ed Miliband think it means to be a ‘working person’?
There is no one type of ‘working person', and it’s an indictment of our politics that such an obvious point has to be made.
Tristram Hunt’s Hippocratic oath: a bad policy from a weak shadow education secretary
Attention is now focused on the fallout from Hunt’s policy rather than where it should be - on coalition education policy.
Forging a new NHS from the ashes: Labour’s chance to rebuild a British icon
Labour could propose a tax to save the NHS and people would pay it. So what's the problem?
How the coalition is privatising state education
Never mind the future threat of for-profit schools, privatisation of English state schools is already underway.
The Independent editorial that would make Gove proud
Why is the Independent faithfully reproducing Department for Education propaganda?