Archive for the ‘Guardian article’ Category
Where are the women?
Posted by: melissabenn on: May 13, 2010
Great piece by Katharine Viner in The Guardian today about the dearth of women or indeed any diversity in the new Con/dem coalition and how this reflects the general absence of women from mainstream political life over the last few weeks. Read it and weep. And then get organised……
On Burma and Bigotgate……..
Posted by: melissabenn on: April 29, 2010
Read Melissa Benn’s latest pieces on the web. Further comment on ‘bigotgate’ in Public Finance, and a piece on one of Burma’s most celebrated activists, the poet and comedian Zarganar, recently sentenced to thirty five years for criticising the government’s handling of cyclone Nargis in 2008, on the Guardian’s Liberty Central section of Comment is [...]
Mary Warnock’s cost-cutting defeatism
Posted by: melissabenn on: March 26, 2010
Read Melissa’s latest post on Comment is Free, the Guardian website, about Mary Warnock’s proposals for secondary schools in an age of austerity.
The Wives Have It.
Posted by: melissabenn on: March 24, 2010
Read Melissa’s latest post on political women versus political wives on Guardian’s Comment is Free website.
The Tories use the ‘c-word’
Posted by: melissabenn on: March 9, 2010
Read Melissa Benn’s latest posting on Guardian Comment is Free on the way Tory education spokesman Michael Gove bandies about the word comprehensive whenever he can, despite the content of opposition education policies.
I wish I’d said that! (1)
Posted by: melissabenn on: February 17, 2010
Another one of my ongoing series * in which I highlight articles or speeches that I admire so much I – kind of – wish I’d written or given them! So, to kick this particular series off: a terrific comment page piece by David Edgar in today’s Guardian about the values and innovation underlying the [...]
Read all about it…
Posted by: melissabenn on: January 30, 2010
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 [...]
Divide and school
Posted by: melissabenn on: January 17, 2010
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.
The grammar conundrum
Posted by: melissabenn on: September 2, 2009
We are at a strange crossroads on selective education in this country. At no time have the main political parties been more united that selection should play no part in any future development of English schools. Yet neither party has concrete proposals for how they might eliminate selection in the many places it still exists. [...]
Divide and rule begins at school
Posted by: melissabenn on: August 22, 2009
Three cheers for Lucy Mangan, writing in today’s Guardian Weekend on the ‘pernicious’ private/state school divide and the hail of criticism she faced when once daring to express her opinion on this issue on our broadcast media. Perhaps articles such as these might kick start a widespread campaign in defence of state education on a [...]
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