The new proposals by education secretary, Michael Gove, for the pay of teachers in the state schools has produced an outcry from the teaching unions. The plan to be introduced this autumn will abolish the mandatory yearly pay rises for new teachers and replace them with 'performance related' pay. The...

On Andrew Neil's This Week programme on Thursday, 6 December, writer and journalist, Tony Parsons talked about increasing inequality and how the loss of the grammar schools was crucial to this. He said "As I was growing up there were five British Prime Ministers in a row that were educated...

The Leveson Report tries to deal head on with the current problems with the press as it sees them. However, on this occasion, I would give full marks to Prime Minister David Cameron who homed in directly on the flaw in Leveson - the introduction of state control into press...

It was a grand project of current JP Morgan Director, Tony Blair, in one of his previous employments as British prime minister: make university education open to the many. The many here was meant to be 50% of the young now going through education. The plan included making students pay...

The great American writer, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) wrote in his 1836 essay, Nature:

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate: - debt, which consumes so much time, which cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem...

There was a BBC Newsnight report at the start of the Paralympics on the current state of eugenics, an idea that has hardly dared speak its name since Hitler embraced it and used it to justify the mass killing of all hundreds of thousands of disabled people.

The reporter...

The Norway killer, Anders Breivik, saw his massacre of 69 people as a strike against what he sees as the growing threat posed by the presence of Muslims in Western Europe. In this he had international connections. The strongest of these appears to have been to our home-grown English Defence...

David Cameron chose Tuesday of this week to hail the figures, published by the Department of Work and Pensions, that seek to demonstrate that many people claiming incapacity benefit could in fact work or partially work. The irony of the abysmal economic growth figures at 0.2% for the second quarter...

The financial crisis that broke in 2008 is far from over. It is moving through different phases with different policy initiatives - all of them (printing dollars, European bailouts) involving state-sized sums of money.

This much is reported in the general media. What is not pointed out is the...