May 2023

Thanks to NAEE's recent news round up for alerting me to a forthcoming Westminster Education Forum policy conference.  The focus is: Next steps for green and climate change education in England.  Details here. It's the usual  formula: [i] a couple of...

According to LabourLife, the party has published its not quite a manifesto for the election they hope to win in 2024.  It's a prelude, a first draft, long (wish) list, a blueprint.  It's full of statements that fall short of...

I wrote the other day about celebrity and conservation; about dogoodery, the liberal conscience, and the ignorance that sometimes informs it.  It took me back to a chapter that Paul Vare and I wrote in our 2018 book: The World...

Good news from the Free Speech Union this morning.  The FSU confirms ... "In a major victory for free speech on campus, the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill got over the final hurdle in the House of Lords on...

Whenever hunting gets discussed in parliament, rationality tends to be smothered by emotion.  Such was again to be seen as the House of Commons passed a bill banning the imports of hunting trophies, against expert advice from conservationists. As The...

I've got out of the habit of writing about attempts to impose curriculum change on university teachers through the 'introduction' of ESD.  When I did, [*] I used to try to argue that reform ought to begin by looking at...