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It is now nearly three years since I published my book Tickbox, a book about a peculiar and widespread fantasy – shared by those who…

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I have been trying to launch some kind of award system over the 18 months or so since the publication of my Tickbox book – really just…

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In the heyday of Gordon Brown’s chancellorship, I went to a conference about the future of ‘extended schools’. The first speaker was an amazing headteacher,…

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It is a little terrifying to think that thee general election of 1997, which brought with it such a sea change in our politics, was…

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Why are we so sick these days? I mean, really? It wasn’t suppose to be like this – thanks to Beveridge, we had assumed that…

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I normally agree with nearly everything my esteemed colleague Simon Mundy says – especially about the Home Office. The issue is why it is quite…

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It was September 1983. Three weeks before, the Soviet air force had shot down a Korean airliner and Cold War tensions were running high. Stanislav…

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I confess that, living in the relative shelter of the South Downs, I was a little underwhelmed by Storm Eunice. And as one by one,…

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I have to say that I feel sorry for Allegra Stratton. I completely agreed with Matthew Parris about her predicament – that was no laugh…

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‘Tickbox culture’ threatens post-covid infrastructure investment plans is our verdict in this report, produced in partnership with leading engineering project management consultancy, Gleeds. The report,…

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Boris Johnson sloganised the last election with the oft-quoted phrase “taking back control”. Whether it was in any way truthful, accurate or realistic is debatable…

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Looking back, I probably should have said something about it then and there, but there is actually very little recourse for an author whose first…

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