Technoccult (Free subscription) | yesterday
Our feature interview this week is with the Right Honorable Michael Gove, one of the leading conservative Ministers of Parliament in the UK. Gove was recently promoted to Shadow Secretary of State for Children Schools and Families. He’s the Founding Chairman of the conservative think tank Policy Exchange, writes regularly for The Times [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Every year thousands of children reach the pinnacle of academic achievement – three As at A-level. Last year 13,500 school pupils scaled that mountain top. Quite a cause for celebration.
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Surprise inspections are to be made after a "damning" report on the failure to save Baby P by child services. Shadow Children's Secretary Michael Gove says the full report has to be published.
English Webster (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Further to my previous blog on that carol concert at St. James's Piccadilly in London, in which I refer to an article on the subject by Michael Gove MP: [irenelancaster.typepad.com] The Times has now blogged on it themselves. [timescolumns.typepad.com] The most frightening aspect of this whole affair is that the organisers of the concert, not totally agreeing with Michael Gove MP's article, which attacked...
THE WILTED ROSE (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Meehan, Shoesmith and Santry - Leader of Haringey Council, its Director of Children’s Services, and its Children’s Services Cabinet Member - have been forced to go following a scathing independent report into the murder of Baby P. As Balls’ Tory shadow, Michael Gove MP, has just pointed out on Sky News, the same authority was given a [...]
Obnoxio The Clown (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Hmmm . Ministers have rejected calls for a review into the death of Baby P, which pointed to failings in Haringey child protection services, to be made public. Michael Gove and David Laws, Tory and Lib Dem frontbenchers, wrote to Children's Secretary Ed Balls urging the internal review to be published. But Mr Balls said confidentiality was vital to the success of such reviews. Huh? Why? So that some...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Burke’s Corner offers a political deconstruction of ‘A Christmas Carol’, written in response to Michael Gove’s contention that Dickens’ ‘little Christmas book’ is a seasonal cliché. As a Tory, Gove should appreciate the tale as a reassertion of socially responsible conservative values, in the teeth of Scrooge’s classically liberal analysis. The piece avers, “Dickens leaves us in no doubt that Ebenezer...
Old Holborn (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
Ed Balls, a liar, yesterday After having been proven to be a liar , Ed Balls has finally agreed to show the report on Baby P to 5 MP’s. Just 5. They are Michael Gove and David Laws, the Children, Schools and Families select committee chairman, Barry Sheerman, and local MPs Lynne Featherstone and David Lammy. No one else is allowed to see it. AND those 5 MP’s are sworn to secrecy under something called...
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Today Ed Balls told the Commons (I'll link to Hansard when the transcript is in place tomorrow: for now try here ): The hon. Gentleman [Michael Gove] will know, as I wrote to him and to the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Laws) this morning, that yesterday I endeavoured to see whether I was able to release the full, confidential, serious case review to parliamentarians, but the clear professional advice...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Ed Balls made a statement to the House of Commons this lunchtime on the Baby P case. Michael Gove, responding, said this... The Secretary of State knows that the hon. Members for Yeovil (Mr. Laws), and for Hornsey and Wood Green (Lynne Featherstone), and I have asked to see the serious case review of the handling of baby P’s case. Regrettably, the Secretary of State’s hands are tied, because the Information...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
The Tories are to promise that, if they become the government, they will link exams to international benchmarks to ensure standards are maintained. In a speech this evening, the shadow schools secretary Michael Gove is going to say that he will give the government's new exams regulator, Ofqual, a statutory duty to guarantee that England's exams and pass marks are comparable with the world's best....
ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
ToryDiary: Boris starts Oliver Letwin's savings list with attack on ID cards, national child register and public sector advertisements in The Guardian Michael Gove promises to tie UK exam standards to best international models The biggest beasts are in the...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Shadow Education Secretary Michael Gove will use a speech later today to outline his plans to restore integrity to Britain's exams system. He will highlight a recent episode when OFQUAL, the new body ostensibly established by Labour to protect qualification...
Minimalist poet, minimalist lifesty (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Writers whose books I can remember reading this year so far: Clive Cussler Eric Flynt Greg Bear Melanie Phillips Michael Gove Michelle Malkin Newt Gingrich
Barnacle Bill (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Michael Gove, Conservative MP for Surrey Heath, over on the TimesOnLine this morning reveals the code names the CIA gave their politicians, some showing a very perceptive view of their charge. So what code names do you think our Secret Services might assign to our politicians? Answers on the back of a postcard, in crayon, and please remember this is a family site!
