Life & Society: Education

Like scaling Everest

Pianism

Time for an honest appraisal

The former Labour MP and minister responds to a New Statesman essay by Neal Lawson and John Harris in which they called for a politics bigger and broader than Labour

Pile up the politicians

...on profligate MPs, policing and a predictable Premiership

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Established values

Observations on back-scratching

Diary: Andrew Motion

'My room used to be in the basement, down among the id-men, but recently I’ve been given one on the top floor and therefore become an ego-ist'

Let them eat celery

...on dodgy claims, dead 'slebs', delightful menus and a notorious school

Make space for creationists to have their say

Evolution has disappeared from many school lessons in the US. If discussion about the origins of life becomes part of science classes here, could Britain follow suit?

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Don't blame it on the nurses!

George Osborne's scapegoating public sector workers for the excesses of his friends in the City is outrageous and an indication of current Tory thinking, argues Dave Prentis

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Interview: Ed Balls

‘‘Do I want to be chancellor? Of course I do. I’d love it’’
Gloria De Piero spends the day with Ed Balls

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A convention of cant

Too many of today’s self-styled defenders of liberty are covert right-wingers, determined only to protect the rich and the privileged

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