Sixteen year-old Jack Watson confesses to lying about what he really thinks about socialism and climate change to get good grades in his GCSEs. If you criticise either, he says, you will be marked down.
Forget Keir Starmer's Modern Industrial Strategy waffle, says Joanna Gray. As someone who works with young people, this is what they need right now – and it's not AI, 'green jobs' and even more imported workers.
Shocking official data reveal that white working-class children are falling behind their peers in all but 21 schools across the country.
Joanna Gray says she was too kind to describe schools as institutionalised childcare. The reality is even worse. Often they're just a holding pen, or even a pre-custody suite.
Jack Watson is taking his GCSEs later this year, but his school insists on distracting him with woke gobbledegook about multiculturalism, racism and the benefits of mass immigration.
Tony Blair has come up with some breathtakingly unoriginal proposals for 'future-proofing’ education – scrap exams and teach 'creativity’! It's same snake oil that education reformers have been selling for 150 years.
