Tag: Boris Johnson
“Do you hear the people sing? It is the sound of...
The song titled above, from smash-hit musical Les Misérables, is sung as the 1832 student-led Republican revolution against the rule of French King Louis-Philippe...
Welcome to Hokey-Cokey education policy
As government promises news on schools reopening and summer exams, retired headteacher Bernard Trafford reckons it’s safest to assume that what will actually happen...
The coming year: light beginning to dawn, or an extension of...
On New Year’s Eve Bernard Trafford was tickled by a bogus quote from Samuel Pepys’s diary doing the rounds on social media. But it also gave...
Ministers mired in muddles and messes prove Boris is no Machiavelli
There was always that question-mark over Boris Johnson. Is he a highly intelligent, astute politician who likes to play the clown? Or is he...
Boris’s billions for building may boost schools but baffle parents
Following the Prime Minister’s statement on Tuesday outlining his vision for an expansionist, prosperous future, Thursday is scheduled to bring an announcement from the...
BANKSY’S WEEK: Who’s a Priti boy? My mate Ferrari! ++ Ploughboy...
Friday, February 21, 2020 I keep in touch with my life before retirement by listening to LBC ('Leading Britain's Conversation') via the internet. Its...
Merely threatening to bypass Parliament on Brexit places our democracy on...
More years ago than I care to remember, I was a very young school head appointed by what seemed to me a very experienced...
Boris: will Britain really back a bouncing, bluffing buffoon?
Well, will it? Boris Johnson was a populist Mayor of London when, arguably, populism meant making people feel good about their city, and part...
Fake news and porkies: can we stop people messing with the...
Fake news: surely the greatest current threat to truth, honest reporting, sincere debate - even to democracy. Falsehood, it seems, is nowadays more powerful...
Heroes and villains, or mere comic-book characters?
It seems the world’s going to hell in a hand cart, with high-profile figures, who see themselves as heroes, leading the way. Many of...
