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Why Finland has the best education system in the world
Instead of national exams, teachers in Finland assess students on an individual basis using their own grading systems.
Silicon Valley to Westminster: How the tech-right’s crypto crusade is crossing the Atlantic
These ideas are no longer confined to obscure books or fringe tech summits, they’re entering mainstream politics.
Andy Burnham backs living income campaign for Greater Manchester
“If you set people up to succeed, they will succeed. We are saying to the government, let us here in Greater Manchester rethink the entire benefits system and turn it from a negative deficit model that’s trying to see the worst in people into an empowering system that builds people up rather than knocks them down.”
Labour is failing to reverse years of austerity for local government
‘More than a decade of central government-imposed austerity on local councils looks set to continue.’
Kemi Badenoch slammed for being ‘on the side of oil and gas giants’
The Tory leader will use a speech today to call for an end to the windfall tax and to lift the ban on new oil and gas licences
Tories call for watchdog to probe Reform UK’s ‘Doge’ data requests
‘I believe that the scale of such unauthorised data transfers across local government is a cyber-security disaster waiting to happen’
New Reform UK director Charlton Edwards shared conspiracy theory and far right content online
Reform’s mask slips again…
Kemi Badenoch claims Tories delivered Brexit bus pledge of £350 million a week for NHS
The NHS did receive more funding, but it had nothing to do with leaving the EU
BBC Question Time audience member roasts Reform as ‘The Comedy Club’ with Zia Yusuf looking on
“It’s not whether Reform will end up in the comedy club – they are the comedy club,”
Firm linked to Tory peer ‘should pay back £122 million for faulty covid PPE’
A PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone supplied faulty surgical gowns