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Local government funding: how the government is trashing incentives

Another bad day for Nick, 30

The driving test crisis has got even worse

Budget 2025: Oh what a tangled web

The effects of ending the two child limit on Universal Credit

New data on migrants earnings

Thirty times Rachel Reeves said she wouldn't raise tax

The castle of lies is collapsing

The China Spy Scandal

Is Britain Balkanising?

The new sex education guidance will fail

Anarcho-tyranny in the UK

New FOI data: where in the UK did recent migrants move to?

Prison officers as punchbags

Sex education in schools: part two

Sex education in schools: part one

Stargazing

Labour have abandoned their main manifesto promise on education

The confluence

Blinded by the light?

Phonics in primary schools: an unfinished revolution

DFE versus the Home Office on foreign students

Down a Norwegian rabbit hole at Easter

Measuring attainment and disadvantage in schools

The government is not serious about fixing the great university rip-off

Vandalism on apprenticeships

The curriculum review: dumbing down?

The schools bill: from parental choice to politicians choosing

Britain's baby deserts

The Pale Blue Dot

It's not rocket fuel

When will the government end the strikes in sixth form colleges?

Why Labour are wrong to water down accountability for failing schools

The Schools Bill: school leaders speak out

The data desert grows

The Corbyn Clause and the threat to good schools

The relationship recession & the birth gap challenge

The Schools Bill: pure vandalism