Interestingly, in Finland's much-lauded education system there is no meaningful private sector. (View Post)

Re private schools; I have a similarly visceral reaction to it that many others do, but whenever you have an instinctive response to an issue it's always worth examining why. The baseline here i… (View Post)

You only have to look at recent Tory cabinets to see in practice how the old boy's network works to promote people far beyond their competence. (View Post)

The ‘Golden Generation’ (which was a stick the media invented to beat the players with) were probably a better group of players, or at least there were more genuinely outstanding players than today. … (View Post)

He’s the best England manager who isn’t Sir Alf, and even he was pretty lucky. What I don’t get with the Southgate-out lot is: who do they think will come in and do a better job? England have a half … (View Post)