“Jeremy’s Marvellous Medicine” – the accidental Third Way in Labour’s manifesto
“I shall make her a new medicine, one that is so strong and so fierce and so fantastic it will either cure her completely or blow off the top of her head!” So thinks nine-year-old George in Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine, after he is left alone by his...
Policy Exchange’s John Blake comments on Labour’s education proposals, in the TES
Read Article This article was featured on TES Ambiguous radicalism is the tone of Labour’s proposals in the manifesto published yesterday: there is not actually much in it, on education at least, that would have looked glaringly out of place in a New Labour manifesto....
The future of school leadership and the role of non teachers – what does the NHS teach us?
Last week, Future Leaders, Teach First and Teaching Leaders jointly released a study into the possible supply and demand for school leaders until 2022. The headline conclusion is that across the leadership cohort: defined as assistant head, deputy head, headteacher or...
Smart Power: How to build a smarter, more flexible power system
It’s officially conference season! Today I’m in Liverpool at the Labour Party Conference, and next weekend the whole Policy Exchange team will be de-camping to Birmingham for the Conservative Party Conference (see our full line-up of events here and here). One of the...
