Candidates for directly elected offices like the London Mayor or the Governor or California need either the backing of a big party machine (Sadiq), or some kind of celebrity (Arnold Schwarzenegger), … (View Post)

It does for children who can benefit from them. And for other children, what's the point? I think the real objection to this is not that it's small, it's that it might cream the best t… (View Post)

There's no point in the taxpayer paying for a first rate academic education to children who can't benefit from it, whether they are rich or poor. If parents want to do it that's their … (View Post)

Actually I don't think private schools are incompatible with equality of oportunity PROVIDED that the government establishes a decent number of scholarships so that poor but gifted children can … (View Post)

Maybe I've dealt with too many Goldman Sachs people in my career, but I can't help seeing him through that particular prism. Excessive showmanship, smoke and mirrors, promises they don'… (View Post)