The official blog of The Social Democratic Party.
David speaks of the state of Britain's education and training system and calls for a radical overhaul of how the UK approaches upskilling the next generation.
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William and David discuss how Britain's education system focuses too much on generating cognitive elites, the societal ramifications of this, and why this approach should be abandoned.
William Clouston
In setting up the Arts Council, Keynes conceived the artist as 'individual and free', but Arts Council England now takes the opposite view
Manick Govinda
The Orkney microcosm offers much to learn. Above all, there is a sense among Orcadians of being part of something bigger than themselves.
We’ve created a country in which the only hope of success for many young people is through crime, a reality show or Instagram fame.
Paula Watson
Joanna and William discuss how Britain has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic.
William and Calvin talk about the role of rigour in education, the danger of identity politics sneaking into schools and the inflation of the university sector.
Policymakers need to ditch their panic on Covid and accept that students should continue to lead normal lives at university.
Patrick O'Flynn
Denmark has in many ways ‘squared the circle’ of raising a lot in tax while not harming overall prosperity.
Dougie Jay
As communitarians we must recognise the damage we are doing to the economy and our communities through Covid lockdowns.
Neil and William talk about the nature of patriotism, community, the crisis of individualism, the narrowness of identity politics, and the need for humans to belong.
The failure to nurture common-good ideas costs all of us - but especially the idealists who try to make communities work.
Andrew Bence
Frank talks about the need for borders, what the loss of a unifying culture means, and the reception of the establishment to the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
Family, Community, Nation.