EXCLUSIVE: Voters support abolishing private schools
Polling also found that 58% of those asked supported private schools losing their charitable status if they did not admit a high proportion of students from deprived backgrounds
Inequality
Prof Prem Sikka: The political system doesn’t work for the poor and marginalised
‘One reason for the persistence of inequalities is that too many legislators are far removed from the social world inhabited by marginalised people’.
Amelia Womack and Tamsin Omond: Our first 100 days as Green Party co-leaders
‘In our first 100 days as leaders, we will meet with the UK’s leading progressive thinkers and movements to understand and promote the best ideas for a low-carbon future’
GCSE results: Gap between poorer and wealthier students continues to widen
There was a widening of the gap for poorer students on free school meals, who scored on average 0.1 of a grade lower compared with 2019.
Are the days of the right-wing’s culture war numbered?
‘76% of people ‘didn’t know’ what politicians meant when they talked about a ‘culture war’.
Why constitutional reforms ought to be the centrepiece of the next general election campaign
‘There is no charter of people’s rights and parliament is weak and unable to hold government to account.’
The 2011 riots ten years on: Four myths and the realities
‘It’s important to reflect on what happened and how it happened. This is especially so, given the myths that surrounded these events. These are the same myths that surround all waves of riots.’
MPs urge action on “deep-rooted and persistent racial inequalities” in policing
‘Our analysis suggests that, on the current rate of progress, we will not have properly representative police forces in England and Wales for another twenty years.’
Prof Prem Sikka: Don’t fall for the Tory ‘levelling up’ mantra, they’re still continuing with austerity
‘The government’s mantra is that it is rebuilding the post-Covid economy by ‘levelling-up’, but it is hard to discern any policy that is reducing inequalities’.
Prof Prem Sikka: The UK’s neoliberal coup has eroded democracy and human rights
‘The last forty years of neoliberal coup has restructured the UK state so that instead of being a provider of public services it has become a guarantor of corporate profits and enrichment of the few.’