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Patently Absurd
Despite world-class universities and a strong science base, Britain produces fewer patents per person than most major economies. More concerning still, innovation in Britain is declining at the same time as it is accelerating in other global markets.
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Aims of Schooling
Since the 1870s English politicians have been worrying about the organisation of schools: church or State? Local or National? Comprehensive or selective? Large or small? Sixth form or tertiary? These are choices which have become familiar to every politician.
A Year in the life of Glasnost
In the summer of 1987, the Centre for Policy Studies held a conference on change in the USSR.
A Mixed Economy for Health Care
In no advanced Western country do health services depend entirely on tax-financed public expenditure. People also spend their own money privately and directly on health care.
Privatise Power
Britain’s electricity supply industry is on the verge of a programme of heavy capital expenditure, to fill a supply gap forecast to widen rapidly in the early years of the next decade.
Victorian Values
Manners and Morals – the expression is peculiarly unmistakable Victorian. Not manners alone: Lord Chesterfield in the eighteenth century was fond of discoursing to his son on the supreme importance of manners, manners as distinct from morals.
The Local Left
There are three main intellectual traditions in the British Labour Party – the Fabens, the Guild socialists and the Marxist.
The Cold War
The Cold War! Many, probably most, of the typical political expressions – the cant phrases, as we would say – of our epoch come from France, and especially from the French revolution.
Science and Politics
In 1872 Walter Bagehot’s physics and politics was published. In it he pointed out that new inventions, particularly the railway and the telegraph, together with the rapid acquisition of physical knowledge were leading to a new world of ideas.
Privatise the Post
The government has taken large steps in order to improve the performance of the postal industry in Britain.
Privatise Coal
The nationalised coal industry is now in better shape than it has been for many years.
More to do
Without an educated citizenry all the achievements of the present government will be built upon sand.
History in Peril
History in Peril introduces a series of four papers. The first three will be devoted to subjects ins schools which are at present under threat, history, mathematics and English.
History and GCSE History
We cannot escape from history, Our lives are governed by what happened in the past, our decisions by what we believe to have happened.
Healthy Competition
The National Health Service is under attack, perhaps more than at any time since its foundation in 1948.
Good Council Guide
Over the last nine years, Conservative Wandsworht Council has reversed the downward spiral so typical of the inner city.
English our English
When children leave English schools today, few are able to speak and write English correctly; even fewer have a familiarity with the literacy heritage of the language.
