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Mary Wixey, 91, a former school PE teacher from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, competes at an athletics meeting in Tipton, near Wolverhampton
Master of the private Magdalen College School in Oxford hits out at deputy prime minister's drive to improve social mobility
Nick Clegg has been accused by a public school head of adopting "old-style communist" tactics in his drive to improve social mobility.
Tim Hands, master of the...
Health secretary Andrew Lansley wants budget allocation to be reflect age of residents rather than level of deprivation
Ministers are planning to switch billions of pounds of NHS spending from the north to the south of England in a move that will hit poorer areas...
During the later Blair years, the prime minister's own aides would sometimes raise an eyebrow and mutter the word 'respect'
During the later Blair years, the prime minister's own aides would sometimes raise an eyebrow and mutter the word "respect". Their boss's swansong agenda...
Poised to elect a new director general, the International Labor Organization needs to challenge the pro-austerity consensus
The Troika – the European Central Bank (ECB), the European Commission, and the IMF – is dragging Europe into its second recession in three years. The ECB by...
Northern Ireland secretary becomes first cabinet member to publicly say he does not support same-sex marriage
Owen Paterson, the socially conservative Northern Ireland secretary, has become the first member of the cabinet to say publicly he does not support gay marriage.
In a sign of the fight...
The "next steps" document on special needs education, following the Queen's speech, drives a coach and horses through the aspiration to inclusion (Special needs kids deserve better than a rush to reform, 21 May). Parents have the right to choose a mainstream school unless...
Prior to becoming secretary general of the Arts Council, Sir Roy Shaw led the Adult Education Department at the University of Keele (Simon Hoggart's week, 19 May). In 1969, Prof Shaw (as he was then) promulgated to a class of student health visitors...
I was surprised to see the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) quoted in a comment piece, (Minimum alcohol pricing? Blame those vomiting girls, 16 May), as noting "no discernible relationship between (alcohol) affordability and harm". This statement, taken in isolation from the report...
The retirement last week of the chief medical adviser for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) leaves its Employment Medical Advisory Service (EMAS) close to collapse. Twenty years ago EMAS was an internationally respected source of occupational health expertise employing 60 occupational health doctors and...
Restricting the disability living allowance (or the personal independence payment) to "those who need it most" must seem to many right now to be entirely reasonable. But this policy accepts that the 500,000 scheduled to be denied help, although not the people who need it...
Veteran director accuses Middle England of being 'obsessed by bad language' as The Angels' Share scrapes a 15 certificate
The team behind The Angels' Share, Britain's sole hope in the race for this year's Palme D'Or, has launched an attack on the "hypocrisy" of...
Iain Duncan Smith to signal measures allowing Jobcentre Plus staff to dock allowances for claimants who refuse treatment
Unemployed people suspected of suffering from alcoholism or drug addiction will have their benefits cut if they refuse treatment for their condition, the work and pensions secretary,...
The Ragged-Tooth Shark | Justified | Frontline: A Jew Among Germans | Hitler's Children | 24 Hours In A&E | The Killing
The Ragged-Tooth Shark has a cuddly nickname, the "Raggie", calling to mind Scooby-Doo rather than Jaws. And on the...
The asbo is dead – but a brace of souped-up new jargon is no shortcut to solving the problem of antisocial behaviour
'Antisocial behaviour" – was ever a phrase so pervasive? Umpteen home secretaries pledged to solve this terrible blight – to protect the "decent" and...
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