Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

At the end of 2009 I commented on how when I was brought in to an advise a boy of 8 on how to live his life, I found myself turning to a co...

This posting is really only going to seem relevant to parents of school-aged children, but I think it also says something about how British ...

As regular readers will know in my house lives a woman and her 7-year old son. Yesterday evening the woman was ill and it was the evening wh...

One effect of having a 7-year old child resident in your house is that the things he is experiencing often trigger of memories of events in ...

While I was ill last week I was haunted by memories of those teachers who humiliated me in my youth. I am sure everyone has teachers who mad...

I have realised that I am beginning to feel rather guilty that a lot of my postings are simply responding to news items I see on television,...

Further to my post of last week, I came across some more interesting figures on private schools and the damage they are doing to education i...

One thing about having a housemate who has a 6-year old child is that you get exposed to some of the goings-on in schools today, away from t...

One recent government announcement I welcomed is the review of the charitable status granted to private schools. It seems odd that profit-m...

Regular readers of this blog will know I am acutely aware of the difficulties of British society and how a lot of these are driven by corros...