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The government white paper and NEU conference: A look at a month in education
Teacher Robert Poole reflects on the government’s education white paper and the key events from the NEU 2022 conference
NEU conference 2022, in Bournemouth
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE big educational news since my last column has been the exciting release of the government’s education white paper.
The paper opens with a foreword from the Secretary of State for Education Nadhim Zahawi. The foreword is accompanied by a photo of Zahawi in which he stares at the camera with a half smirk giving off clear Demon Headmaster vibes.
As is the way of politicians, they have to include a story to help us relate to them and prove that they too have experience of being a child. For Zahawi it is to tell us about how he was a disruptive child who knew “what it is like to feel that a bright future is a long way away.” Yes, life was hard for poor Nadhim at his £21,000-a-year private school in Wimbledon.
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