Up to a point. The problems are, as you say, intractable and to a fair extent beyond the influence of councillors. But bad councillors can make things a lot worse than a set of competent ones do. (View Post)

It is. One of the reasons I favour PR (a rate point of agreement with Farage, though I'm sceptical he'd do anything about it if he actually got into government) is that it offers at least t… (View Post)

A touch of strawmanning in that argument. It's not "demonising" them to point out the likely futility of their choices. Many of us are just as frustrated with the efforts of the former… (View Post)

I've always suspected this to be true. Good to see the dogma overturned. Teaching in classes grouped by ability does not hamper progress of less able pupils, study finds https://www.theguardian.… (View Post)

We need an enquiry into the vetting failure ... (View Post)