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Justine Greening Articles

The Last Word: Depleted moral authority

Even silence from the Labour frontbench on the Iranian protests was preferable to the subsequent vocalised equivocation, argues Robert Philpot Last weekend Emily Thornberry broke the Labour leadership’s virtual silence on the new year protests in Iran. It would have...

Tories don’t understand children, parents or ‘meritocracy’

This week the secretary of state for education's conference speech made clear that the Tories don't understand children, they don't understand parents, and they don't have the policies necessary to create the ‘meritocracy’ that they speak of. First, the very fact that...

The grammar vacuum

Aristotle famously said that nature abhors a vacuum. He was half right in the sense that, given a chance, denser material will rush in to fill the void. But as we now know, large parts of the universe do manage to persist in a state of emptiness. It is...

Turn the Tory bandwagon into a tumbril

The Tories looked in triumphal mood at prime minister’s questions today. Unemployment is going down. The number of Romanians and Bulgarians looking for jobs in the United Kingdom has fallen since they were allowed to come and work freely in the country. And the...