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On May 7 1959, the celebrated novelist C P Snow mounted the podium in the Senate House in Cambridge to deliver that year's Rede Lecture. The title was 'The Two [...]

At last we have it. After months of 'leaks'' (aka kite-flying by Government advisers), Sir Jim Rose's review of the primary school curriculum was published last week. Twittering for tinies [...]

The intolerance of those who shout most loudly about the need for toleration is a paradox too stale to be surprising, and the attacks on the Roman Catholic Church over [...]

One of the sessions at Charityfair 97, a three-day event staged by the voluntary sector in the week of Apr. 14, 1997, will be a debate on whether the voluntary sector in Britain is in crisis. Warnings of donor disquiet, compassion fatigue and charities that have 'lost their way' regularly appear in the media, yet overall voluntary sector income rose by 20% between 1991 and 1994/95. However it can be argued that charities have lost their independence, effectively becoming sub-contractors to the welfare system, with the Government setting the agenda of the voluntary sector.