Education Education Education
This article about how educational reform in Britain has failed students is well worth reading. Gradually the Spectator, and now The Business (both part of the Barclay Brothers' empire, I think) are giving the facts about schooling in Britain.
Tony Blair was asked about Alan Johnson's remark that social mobility in Britain being less now than when he was young. TB dismissed this by saying that the Working Class in the past was a vast body with reserves of solidarity, but that (by implication) now poor people represented a tiny rump who could not be expected to have the capability to improve their lot in life.
For me, education policy is the most important domestic policy topic by far, but no party remotely supports any kind of fundamental change to state schooling. How come? It is surely not that politicians actually think that bog standard comps are satisfactory, is it?
This report from Civitas on overseas experience with school choice is not clear-cut but certainly indicates that a system of school vouchers, like Sweden's, does work.