Mark Rusling Articles

Political parties, like people, have obsessions. They might be idiosyncratic or mainstream; based on evidence or a hunch; serious or minor. But, like an unreachable itch, all these obsessions demand to be scratched periodically and, in education policy, Tories are...

Big changes are not always wrong – but they require big justifications. England has never had a national school system. This government is proposing to create one for the first time, mandating that all 25,000 English schools will become academies by 2022, and that...

Most of the coverage of Jon Cruddas’ speech in east London this week has focussed on his call for an English Labour party. Whether you agree or disagree, is it not bizarre quite how controversial that call is within Labour? The true radicalism was found elsewhere in...

Too often, the world of party politics and the world in which most people live are too different. Party politics tells me that, as a Labour councillor, I should not like a book by David Cameron’s former special adviser. But the real world tells me that there is much,...