Rarely is the question asked, “is our children learning?” –George W. Bush, 2000 Last week on The Big Picture*, Simon produced a special report on the state of the education system. The panel all seemed to agree that there wasn’t anything particularly wrong with the current state system, going as far as to argue that [...]
The recent allegations of bullying in Gordon Brown’s office are by no means the first of their kind. Andrew Rawnsley’s book merely suggested that people were shoved aside, as opposed to the more serious claims of mobile phones being thrown which have been circulating the internet for some time. On top of this, the National [...]
The 2008 U.S. Presidential Election clearly showed the potential for the political use of the internet in campaigning. Our own general election here in the U.K. is likely to be no different, particularly with blogs such as Iain Dale’s Diary and LabourList already featuring prominently in discussions in the mainstream media. Yet when there was [...]