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Over-Labelling Children With ‘Special Needs’ has Failed a Generation

During the SEND spending debate a wide variety of MPs, celebrities, Times commentators and Mumsnet posters, will offer, like an animal sacrifice, the bodies of broken, neglected, state-abandoned children with ‘special educational needs and disabilities’ to an appalled public. The children will lie with sad eyes and frail limbs in the collective imagination as the

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Racism? So What?!

I sometimes despair at my conservative colleagues, but never more so than when they mishandle accusations of ‘racism’. Being in favour of an inquiry into Muslim rape gangs “isn’t racist” according to Rupert Lowe. Phew! We can all sleep soundly in our beds, safe in the knowledge that we have dodged the ire of Emily Maitlis.

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England No More

Twenty years ago, I was a juggler. The majority of my ‘work’ was in schools. I travelled the length and breadth of England – witnessing firsthand the changes wrought by Tony Blair and New Labour ‘diversity’. I can remember all of the best jobs – invariably these were small village schools, where the pupil numbers

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