“I promise that if we pull together to deal with the debts today, then just a few years down the line the rewards will be felt by everyone in our country.” That’s what our glorious leader David Cameron had to tell us when he spoke at the Conservative Party conference yesterday. It is always uncomfortable [...]
Yesterday’s Iraq war memorial service can’t have been much fun for Tony Blair. Not only did he get called a war criminal by the father of a soldier who was killed in the conflict, he also had to sit quietly through the Rowan Williams’ polite denouncing of those who ‘look for short cuts in the [...]
The integration of minority communities, particularly Muslim minorities, into majority British society has been a hotly contested subject in recent years. For all the attention it has received in the press since 7/7, however, the role of faith schools in hindering integration in multicultural societies has been overlooked too long. Last year, the NUT finally [...]
