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The New Statesman Profile - Kevin McNeany
14 January 2002

This is the man whom Labour trusts to run our schools - and to make millions from doing so. Kevin Mc

Politics
Parents dare to challenge selection
17 December 2001

The rules make it all but impossible, but a drive to stop the 11-plus goes on. ByFrancis Beckett

Politics
They wasted £57m, but didn't learn
26 November 2001

Francis Beckett on how ministers plan to repeat the errors of their pet project for schools

Politics
Christian values? Humbug!
15 October 2001

Francis Beckett, educated by Jesuits but now a deplorable pagan, argues that church schools, despite

Politics
New Labour and proud of it
01 October 2001

Labour Conference 2001: The Gen Sec - The most famous student rebel of 1968, and later a Co

Politics
The great tuition fee scandal
17 September 2001

Blair's policies keep the less affluent out of university; they also ensure that, even if they get t

Politics
This love affair could go too far
16 July 2001

New Labour has enveloped the private schools in a fierce ideological embrace. But the schools would

Society
The New Statesman Profile - Charles Clarke
18 June 2001

He was once portrayed as dictatorial, obsessed, almost demented. But Blair's new appointment could p

Politics
Brideshead inspected? No, sir!
07 May 2001

Francis Beckett explains how teaching at the top universities managed to escape official scrutiny

Politics
The unheard voice of the countryside
30 April 2001

May Day 2001 - Nobody bothers to ask farmworkers what they think of the current crisis

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