Why has Bridget Phillipson got the free schools programme in her sites? After all, it was the Tories’ most successful education policy, creating over 650 great schools quickly and cheaply. Two reasons: revenge and embarrassment.
"Who’s in, who's out?" asks Shakespeare. At the Spectator, Michael Gove is in and Fraser Nelson is out. Both say the magazine should prize style over viewpoint. But is this really right, asks Prof James Alexander.
Labour's manifesto threatens us with an "expert-led" review to produce a "modern, inclusive and innovative" school curriculum. Former Government chief curriculum adviser Dr. Nicholas Tate looks at what this could mean.
Labour faces accusations of intending to raise council tax on homes with larger gardens by using satellite surveillance to spy on property sizes, should the party come into power.
A new Hope Not Hate report warns that Tory MPs like Jacob Rees-Mogg are part of a "Right-wing insurgency undermining minority rights" – showing what's so dangerous about Michael Gove's new definition of 'extremism'.
Counter-terror and extremism experts, including former Conservative home secretaries, are warning against exploiting extremism for political gain ahead of Michael Gove's controversial new anti-extremism plan.
Professor Angus Dalgleish, a co-author of a scientific paper on the origins of COVID-19, emphasises the imperative for the Covid Inquiry to diligently pursue the truth regarding the virus's origin.
Michael Gove has told the Covid Inquiry he became convinced lockdown was needed to counter the "man-made" coronavirus due to material from "friends outside Government", adding to the picture of why the world locked down.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators "targeted" Jewish families leaving a synagogue, following a gathering of hundreds of thousands for a 'peaceful' march on Armistice Day.
Michael Gove has been railing against the "resentment industry" of diversity and equality oozing out of HR departments. There's just one problem, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes: the Tories created it.
