Grammar schools

A very quick post here, about grammar schools and Graham Brady, the Conservative MP who is no longer in David Cameron’s team. The use of statistics here is shocking.
Mr Brady sent some data to the Times, showing that grammar schools ‘give a lift to results of all around them’ which essentially hinges on the fact [...]

It’s the inequality, stupid

Blair going, and Brown coming, hopefully means some new policies for our Labour government, and fingers crossed that this will include doing something about inequality. Polly Toynbee thinks this might happen. I’m not so sure.
Anyway, I’m just going to show why inequality matters… Blair’s insistence that it wasn’t necessary to do anything about inequality, but [...]

Scotland’s election

Amazing story this, as it goes to show how far the powers that be actually trust the people (i.e. not at all). Now the SNP have the most SMPs, but no majority, everyone has started saying that they don’t have a mandate for a referendum on independence.

‘the Liberal Democrats also dismissed the chance of a [...]