One of the neat bits of distraction Farage has pulled throughout his career. We all direct our attention on the dispossessed slice of his support, but that's just the icing on the cake. His core vote… (View Post)

Looked at another way... Head of Ofsted isn't a job where a peerage is the standard retirement gift. So it's not that. And, desperate as the Conservatives are for supporters, there are less implausib… (View Post)

Fully agree. Public libraries are absolutely a good thing and one of those last bastions of community, curation and not being advert fodder. I'm not surprised that Team Musk has gone for them, becaus… (View Post)

If only... (In terms of getting top jobs. I'm not calling for her existence to never have happened.) (View Post)

That's probably some of it. But there's also what I can only describe as old-fashioned morality. Ofsted sits in judgement over schools, heads and teachers, in a professional-life-or-death way. That's… (View Post)