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Few people will be in negative equity at present because house prices haven't crashed, which means they do still have the unpleasant but possibly necessary option of selling up and buying somewhere cheaper. (Especially if their income is on the £80k region, they can't reasonably expect people...

Not being a teacher, I couldn't say how much of their workload is waste of time, or what specifically they're doing that doesn't need doing. But I have no reason to doubt the unions' assertion that the average teacher is working over 60 hours per week in termtime, and also working in the...

It does. But I reckon there could be big savings by losing a lot of the admin staffs, the education authorities, and going back to core principles of teachers and pupils. And massively cutting back on paperwork so that teachers can be teachers not administrators, which will surely improve the...

The point is that few parents, however politically inclined they are to abolish the better and most popular schools, will follow through by sending their child to a rubbish school in hopes that it might somehow improve. If their good school is closed, they will find another good school somehow...

I've often seen that imagined. I don't know how many schools Tony Blair's children passed to get to The Oratory, but it doesn't suggest much commitment to putting the greater good of the country against the good of his own children. Diane Abbott and Shirley Williams have both proved in the...

And at the same time, perhaps they could bring down the standards of the better state schools so that no child gets a better education than the next child. If there is a problem with schools not being good enough (and it's not a new problem), the answer isn't to close the good ones. It's to...

Your billions and trillions are a bit askew. Yes, the rich 1% have £2.8 trillion or £4m each on average. But the 70% have £2.4 trillion according to Credit Suisse, not billion. £2.4 billion among 48 million would be net £50 per head over 70% of the population. £50,000 per head is the true...

For £20, the charity Mary's Meals can provide a school dinner for a full year for a child who would otherwise have no dinner at all. I'm rich.