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FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
KEVIN DONNELLY and MARIA DUARTE review Shoot the People, The Last One For The Road, Rosebush Pruning, and Moana
JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza
The Thirty Years War: My Life Reporting on Education, by Richard Garner (John Catt, £13)
BRITAIN’S education system is perhaps the thing our rulers are least prepared to leave to the experts.
This is, of course, nothing new. The genesis of mass schooling did not take place in a political vacuum and nor did the 1944 Education Act, nor still the introduction of comprehensives.
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