Deborah Orr
Deborah Orr: The bright sparks are left behind
The Government has this week launched another bunch of tinkering education reforms. In the main, they suffer from the same problem as every reform of anything that this Government, from now on, will ever announce.
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Saturday, 27 June 2009
I can't help it. School nativities, passion plays, I still think that theatrical renditions of the life of Christ are wonderful and precious aspects of folk culture, with valuable and affirmative things to teach our children.
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Thursday, 25 June 2009
If a pupil is beyond a school's range of expertise, there must be a safe alternative
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Saturday, 20 June 2009
Nadine Dorries, the Conservative MP who warned weeks ago that the Telegraph's expenses investigation was putting MPs under so much pressure that she feared that some might kill themselves, has now reported that her patio furniture has been vandalised. She says she knows it was a deliberate response to her position as an MP because she received a blog comment that she didn't post, which read: "Nice patio Nadine, or was."
Deborah Orr: The social ills caused by family breakdown cannot be ignored
Thursday, 18 June 2009
A jaundiced view of the state of parenting in Britain is hardly surprising
Deborah Orr: The immigration debate is not a right-left issue
Saturday, 13 June 2009
That long-running debate about whether the BNP should be given "the oxygen of publicity" seems finally to have resolved itself. Days after the group won two seats in the European Parliament, James W von Brunn, a US friend and supporter of the BNP, shot dead security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns at Washington's Holocaust Memorial Museum. Tragic for Johns, but a winner for anti-fascism.
Deborah Orr: We feel sorry for abused children. But what about damaged adults?
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Educational facilities for children like Sonnex have improved so little under Labour
Deborah Orr: Blatant self-interest is infesting Labour right to the bitter end
Saturday, 6 June 2009
It just gets worse and worse, doesn't it? First, they show little comprehension as to why their tax-dodging, publicly funded property speculation is despicable. Then, they mount another formidable display of inward-looking opportunism, by using the chaos unleashed by the expenses crisis to dazzle us with an every-man-for-himself extravaganza of shameless self-importance, as MPs rush to shore up their waning careers.
A collapse that is long overdue
Thursday, 4 June 2009
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Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Susan Boyle is by no means the first famous entertainer to beat a retreat to the Priory. But she has certainly moved from discovery to exhaustion with exceptional alacrity. Poor lady. It was all too much for her.
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