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Michael Gove is right about the English syllabus

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It turns out he doesn’t want to ban any books – but the furore says a lot about his critics’ prejudices says Claire in The Guardian. The big story of this bank holiday weekend was the tale of an education secretary who was allegedly trying to stop teenagers reading To Kill a Mockingbird and Of … Read more

It’s a sick society that encourages its citizens to view everything going on around them with suspicion

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In the Independent, Claire argues that whistleblower hotlines risk creating a paranoid, fragmented workforce Some 500 authors have this week spoken out about the capacity of the intelligence agencies to spy on millions of people’s digital communications. They have a point when they argue that this is “turning everyone into potential suspects”. Yet maybe the … Read more