What doesn't kill you...

I haven’t blogged for over a year. This is predominantly due to the fact that my wife very nearly died in September 2023 and her life-saving...

I have always tended to agree with Samuel Johnson that, "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" and I get itchy when we rus...

Last week I was invited to comment on the rise of parental complaints by SchoolsWeek in an article published under the title “ Trust hopes c...

Social media continues to debate Ofsted’s role in the recent death of a headteacher with much sound and fury. It is not for me to intrude up...

A journalist asked me yesterday about the Ofsted involvement with Oak National Academy. Before I returned her call, I tried to order my thou...

I have complained before about the guff written about governance despite also being guitly of contributing to it [1]. But the debate is so c...

I have written before about the trouble with grammar schools. This post from six years ago  still stands up. It is depressing that despite a...