On Monday the government announced that university tuition fees will rise to a maximum of £9,535. This is a stark contrast from one of Starmer’s2020 leadership campaign pledges to abolish tuition fees, and once again we are returned to the issue of higher education funding and addressing the elephant…
Re-visiting Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireworld: Mile End Institute Hennessy Lecture On Wednesday I had the privilege of attending the Mile End Institute’s Hennessy lecture with Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireworld: How British Imperialism has Shaped the Globe, and Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. A brief introduction…
It’s 2014, and the coalition government is publishing its “Promoting fundamental British values as part of SMSC in schools” (catchy) advice for school leaders. It’s intention? To cement the teaching of British values into the spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development of…
In their 1910 manifesto Labour said that the upper chamber “must go”, yet over 100 hundred years later we still find ourselves with a chamber containing dukes, earls and viscounts. Granted, not all of those outdated title remain, and Starmer has pledged to restore trust in British politics by abolishing the presence of hereditary peers in our law-making together