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Everything published since 2018, by strand, series and year.
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Our schools. Their future. Your choice.
Eighty two candidates are standing in Thursday’s Isle of Man General Election. I read every manifesto I could find, and went looking for several I never…
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Keeping A Clean Sheet
Four games into the season my team have not scored a goal. Two points, seventeenth, after a three hundred million pound rebuild. But look at the…
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Singapore vs New York City: AI is coming but who has the right approach?
New York has banned generative AI for six hundred thousand primary and middle school children. Singapore is building it into the curriculum. Both this year, both…
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The Cost Nobody Measures
At the O2 this week I watched Ariana Grande get lifted above twenty thousand people on rigging that gets load-tested and certified before every show. Leadership…
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Keep Moving
Tower Bridge looks ceremonial. A panel inside points out that if it stopped operating, London’s traffic would stop with it. Governing bodies look ceremonial too, and…
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The Invisible Leaders
Front of house, PA to the head, finance, comms, safeguarding admin, the furious parent and the frightened one. That’s a school administrator on a Monday morning,…