Children aren't supposed to think, says Woodhead
Question: What sort of educator writes: "Who cares what they [schoolchildren] think or feel"?
Answer: Chris Woodhead in the current Sunday Times.
The sixties youth cult at number 10
If you think Prime Ministers are getting younger, it’s not because you’re getting older. They are getting younger. Tony Blair in 1997, aged 44, was the youngest Prime Minister since 1812, and David Cameron was a year younger than Blair when he entered Number Ten.
Feeding anti-trade unionism with the old red menace
A couple of academics have become very excited about their "discovery" that the National Union of Mineworkers took money from Communist bloc countries during the 1984-5 miners' strike.
There's a detailed account of the movement of Soviet money in Marching to the Fault Line by me and David Hencke, published a couple of years ago by Constable and Robinson.
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It all depends how old you are
There's a cheering amount of controversy around my new book, What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us?
Baby boomers tend to think I'm a traitor to my generation. The young feel I've confirmed their long-felt grievances. Neither of them are quite right.
Rosamund Urwin, Matthew Taylor and me
The Evening Standard has a remarkably thoughtful and perspicacious columnist called Rosamund Urwin who last night wrote "...Francis Beckett in his brilliant new book, What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do for Us?, which is launched today."