Eyes open for the backlash
What a pleasure to see the bonus-vultures on the back foot for once – but it can’t last…
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Denominational schooling and the manufacture of victimhood
Once again the Catholic Church has converted an important question about the nature of religion in education into an inverted witch-hunt
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Where Dragons’ Den should stop and some proper work begin
The Tory Government’s plan for a competition to identify innovation is an X-Factor answer to a Nobel question
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The BBC and the definition of ‘political’
Salmond’s views on rugby opens up a difficult question for balanced discussion of Scotland’s future
Sea bass and manufactured normality
David Cameron is in Morrisons picking up his messages? You’d think he was trying to differentiate himself from rich bankers or something…
The Windsors – political activists
Surely the week’s news should dispell any suggestion that the Royal Family is just a bit of harmless fun
Entirely neutral government statistics? Really? Where?
In today’s Scotsman academic Arthur Midwinter claims that the Scottish Government is not being honest about statistics. This would not make them an isolate case…
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This is real progress in the reform of universities
Rector-elect of Edinburgh University looks at the proposals for reform of the governance of universities and finds a promising start.
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Parliamentary democracy and the art of the expected
Sometimes it really is a bit galling to hear Westminster politicians criticising the level of scrutiny at Holyrood – and today is one of those days…
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Why amn’t I cheering about the lynching of Goodwin?
People on the left might be expected to be first in line to celebrate the removal of Fred Goodwin’s knighthood – but we know a distraction when we see one…
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