11 June 2014
Part-time ex-Oxford lecturers
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text of a letter to an academic I wonder if you know anyone who knows the Principal of Ripon Theological College, which is in Cuddesdon an...
09 June 2014
Opportunity in Cuddesdon, Oxford
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text of a letter to the author of an investment newsletter Dear ... I am a long-term subscriber to your newsletter. I am an outcast aca...
27 May 2014
Socialism and the Cleare family
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From the onset of socialism, it clearly reduced the opportunities of the most exceptional. This may be illustrated by its effects on the fa...
23 May 2014
Education against ability
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copy of a letter to an academic We never get a break, which is not surprising as modern society is geared against ability. There has been...
Means-testing of pensions
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I am reposting this piece from August 2010, in the light of the recent Daily Mail investigation by Tony Hazell that the government will not...
29 April 2014
From heredity to genocide?
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Today there was a programme on BBC Radio 4 entitled: Intelligence – born smart, born equal, born different According to the Radio Times , ...
13 April 2014
Invitation to members of the Oxford and Cambridge Club
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My colleague, Dr Charles McCreery, has been a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London for a Oxford and Cambridge Club at dusk...
07 April 2014
Emotional abuse – by teachers and social workers
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It seems the government is planning to update the law on child abuse to include ‘emotional cruelty’ as an imprisonable offence. Changes to ...
27 March 2014
Correlation is not causation
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Articles in the media commenting on education tend not to make clear the distinction between correlation and causation. For example, a re...
06 February 2014
There’s no such thing as a free lunch box
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Teachers and social workers should tell people that they are bad parents and to stop failing their children, the head of Ofsted has warned. ...
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