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Labour is finally inching in the direction it should have taken years ago, but even now Brown can't stop triangulating Queen's speeches always have a slightly comical, Ruritanian feel to them. But yesterday's spectacle of the...
More than half of white boys on free school meals do not attain Sats standard expected of them, figures show Boys from poor, white families performed worse in primary school tests than those from ethnic minorities for the first...
Prince Charles is wary of Ed Balls's curriculum reforms, says one of his advisers. Is he just being old-fashioned, or has he got a point You know what they say about history. It's just one thing after another. Well, perhaps so,...
Gordon Brown was today forced into an embarrassing U-turn on his Queen's Speech after a row erupted over his failure to mention a shake-up of MPs' expenses. Labour admitted it could introduce laws to implement Sir Christopher...
These are testing times for parents who educate their children at home. Five months after Graham Badman's report was published, the inclusion of some of his findings in the Queen's speech makes it clear that the system faces...
Never mind the Queen's speech, which seems largely irrelevant given the fast approaching election; British politics is about to get interesting again. After years in which the outcome of British elections made very little...
Though it's hard to believe that Christmas could become tackier and more materialistic than it already is, somehow, every year, they manage it. You've got to hand it to Marks & Spencer and the BBC: who would have thought 2,000...
From a Queen's Speech modelled more closely on adolescent sex than parliamentary convention (hours of breathless anticipation, then wham, bam, thank you Ma'am, it's over in about two seconds), I learned two things.
Are Gordon Brown’s guarantees for parents and patients worth the order paper that they are written on? MPs and policy experts have questioned the sense in making such open-ended promises, asking whether the guarantees can be...
The Financial Services Authority will also be given the power to demand information from firms it does not regulate - effectively bringing hedge funds and other non-banking institutions into the regulatory net. The financial...
