Selection in secondary education is back. The government’s new policy aims to promote consumer choice, and justifies this on grounds of fairness and merit. But who gets to decide what's fair, and who merits a good education?
The British education system reflects long-standing social division. A recent Social Market Foundation paper proposes reforms combining variations of previous attempts with radical marketisation of state education. Is a better functioning market the way to improve access to good schools, or will i
From banking to bad taste, the usual suspect when things go wrong is the culture of an organisation or group. Investigating and fixing cultures has become our main hope of salvation. But this is a convenient distraction from questions of moral responsibility, consequences, and of how people can ta
Should we make banks better, or just make them redundant? Peer-to-peer currency schemes like bitcoin.org offer the possibility of networked money without banks. Should democrats embrace the possibilities?
