New Labour's promise of "education, education, education" should, according to a devastating report by Ofsted's Chief Inspector Christine Gilbert, be rewritten to read "education, acceptable education, mediocrity"
Read full article...The Business Secretary, Peter Mandelson, has warned that there will have to be "remedial action" to oblige Oxford and Cambridge to admit more working-class students
As with so many decisions in a body composed of 25 member states, the choice of Herman van Rompuy as EU President and Catherine Ashton as EU foreign minister is a messy and inoffensive compromise
One of the subjects that the Prince of Wales feels most passionately about is education
The Queen's speech is accompanied by all the usual pomp and circumstance (excepting the Speaker’s decision to dress down) but it has, nonetheless, an air of unreality
Just as a poll carried out for the BBC reveals a majority of the public would prefer spending cuts to raising taxes to get Britain out of the red, the Children's Secretary, Ed Balls, has applied for an inflation-busting boost to his own budget
It was always inevitable that this week's Queen's Speech to Parliament would be highly political
The Government has known for at least five years that when Eurostar moved its operations to St Pancras the terminal at Waterloo would be available for domestic use
The war in Afghanistan is - notwithstanding the steady toll of British deaths and the deployment of more than 9,000 personnel - largely being fought by the Americans
The transcript of a conversation between the Prime Minister and the mother of a soldier who died in Afghanistan has driven the Government's failures to equip troops adequately to the top of the political agenda
The 20th century was bloody and terrible in many ways but 20 years ago today, one grim chapter in the history of that time was brought to a good conclusion
This newspaper's interview with David Cameron lays bare some of the tough choices that will face the Conservative leader if he forms the next Government
The situation in Afghanistan was brought into sharp perspective yesterday when we learned of the death of five British servicemen at the hands of one of the Afghan policemen they were helping to train
Today, Sir Christopher Kelly's report on MPs' expenses, six months in the making, is unveiled
The taxpayer bail-out of the banks continues apace, with the biggest cash injection by the state to date
Conservative leader David Cameron seeks to square a circle today as he promises both to safeguard and to reform the NHS
The fading fortunes of Tony Blair in his bid to become President of the European Council will please those offended by his threatened re-emergence
We face a second wave of postal strikes. The selfdestructive machismo of the Communication Workers Union in the face of the unquestioned need to modernise has brought us another display of the hardliners' muscle, with no regard for the consequences for Royal Mail users
The bombings of Kabul's principal hotel destination for Westerners and of a hostel approved for UN workers underline the scale of the challenge facing Nato in Afghanistan ahead of the presidential election runoff
Two members of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) are expected to demand a halt to the new policy of more frequent armed patrols of streets and housing estates in Brixton, Harlesden and Haringey affected by gun crime
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