Village People

Reprinted from my Herald Blog of two weeks ago in support of striking PSAs in Glasgow today. I watched them discreetly from a distance: the distressed pupil and the Pupil Support Assistant. He had a number of challenges, mental and physical, which made his place in mainstream education difficult to maintain but one of the

Dust to Dust

In August I went to Great Tew in Oxfordshire; it is a beautiful village, nestling in estate countryside which can’t have changed much in a hundred years. The surroundings are breathtakingly beautiful and redolent of the peace of old England. I loved it there. The estate farms, mechanised now, must once have employed hundreds of