Apropos of my last post on the subject of GCSE examinations, Caroline Crampton offers a few ‘thoughts’ (a very loose description) on the same subject at the New Statesman: Will Gove’s new O-Levels teach you anything useful? What exactly might Gove’s plans to replace GCSEs (which he feels […]

From the file marked ‘Why journalists shouldn’t do statistics’ we have a new front page entry from the Daily Mail. As per standard Ministry policy, I’m not going to link to the Mail’s article but I will quote from it as I tear it into little tiny kibbles […]

Over at the Richard Dawkins Foundation, the great man himself has posted a fascinating and, to say the least, illuminating account of a telephone conversation with a reporter from the Telegraph which speaks volumes for the rather desperate state into which the newspaper has fallen in recent times. […]

Yesterday, the BBC News ran what, by any measure, is a rather unpleasant local story from Cornwall… A horse has died after being horrifically mutilated in a field in Cornwall, detectives said. Devon and Cornwall Police said the tortured animal died from severe injuries to its head and […]