Dear Liz, Re: Leadership of the Labour Party I noted the other day that leadership contests are that rare occasion when MPs and ordinary members are frank about the personalities and policies at the top of the party. Some also over egg the pudding and go for outright abuse. I’m thinking mainly, this time around, […]
Posts Tagged ‘Marketisation’
Dear Liz Kendall, about the differences between socialism and liberalism…
May 24th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Putting public interest first means rejecting Tory dogma that private is best
Feb 23rd, 2014 by Jon Trickett.Recently, Ed Miliband said that the times we live in demand “a new culture in our public services. Not old-style, top-down central control, with users as passive recipients of services. Nor a market-based individualism which says we can simply transplant the principles of the private sector lock, stock and barrel into the public sector.” In […]
Has Labour abandoned education?
Jan 4th, 2014 by David Pavett.Education is like apple pie and motherhood: everyone agrees it is a good thing. The problem is that “education” refers not to one thing but to a wide range of different arrangements serving very different social needs. A highly stratified hierarchical society is likely to have a similarly differentiated hierarchical system of education. A society […]