Below, three links to Melissa’s latest journalism:
* Opinion piece in this week’s Public Finance on why neither party can win the class war.
* An in depth interview in The Guardian today with Mary Foley, an extraordinary woman, who has forgiven her daughter’s killer.
* A review in this week’s New Statesman on Kate Figes’s latest book on modern coupledom.
Read Melissa Benn’s latest post on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website on the emerging two tier exam system in our education system. Continue Reading
Excellent article by Will Hutton also in today’s Observer about class and private education, the great taboo – yes, still – in public and political debate. For the moment, I will simply refer to one statistic quoted by Hutton. Ten million people in this country earn £15000 a year or less, and there are a… Continue Reading
I’m glad to see Ed Miliband, in his Observer article today, nail the lie that there remains a yawning gap between so called aspirational citizens and so called core Labour voters. Miliband talks instead of self interest and shared interest, and the need for Labour to build on common values rather than make a lame… Continue Reading
The crisis of the meritocracy: Britain’s transition to mass education since the Second World War PETER MANDLER, 2020 Oxford: Oxford University Press 361pp, hardback, £25, ISBN 9780198840145 Cambridge historian Peter Mandler has a fundamentally optimistic story to tell about the growth of universal education in Britain over the last seventy years and one can sense… Continue reading…
Melissa will be in conversation with Anne Sebba about her new book, ‘Ethel Rosenberg – A Cold War Tragedy.’ Weds 15th September 2021, 5-6pm, in the Robert Graves Tent at the Wimbledon Book Festival. More information here. Continue reading…
