Beneath all the traditional media publicity and right-wing outcry about public examinations results in England this last Thursday, there was one statistic that for me was very worrying indeed. I may be wrong, but I think only The Guardian highlighted it. Out of all the hundreds of thousands of young...

Do you remember July 27th? That was the day that The United Kingdom prepared itself for the Olympics, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport showed off his bell-ringing prowess, and everyone got ready for a fortnight of good news, Well, almost everybody. On that day the people...

Picture, if you will, the scene in every school in the United Kingdom this Autumn. One day, suddenly, a large package is delivered. Inside? A leather-bound volume embossed on the side with 'A gift to schools from the Prime Minister'. The title? My Summer at the Olympics by David Cameron....