This article was amended on 27 January 2012. The original may have implied that the Community Security Trust retained cash or employed school security guards.

The CST doesn't itself receive any donations; rather, it distributes the money it receives to various security companies, none of which Michael Gove is on the board of.

their knee-jerk opposition to public service reform and their willingness to regurgitate anti-Semitic propaganda.

Faith schools make a fantastic contribution to our education system and none more so than Jewish faith schools, which teach children the importance of ethos, values and a belief in social justice.

Children and staff at these schools should feel safe at school and able to learn in an environment free from any anti-semitic or racist threats. That is why I have secured funding of up to £2 million for 2010-11 to be made to the 39 schools via the Community Security Trust.

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According to "professional Gumby" Toby Young this was "a spectacular own goal" for the Guardian.

In January 2010, MacDonald began acting as director of the newly-founded political party American Third Position, which declares America a white Christian nation and advocates for limiting "non-white" immigration into the United States. A statement on their website reads, "If current demographic trends persist, European-Americans will become a minority in America in only a few decades time. The American Third Position will not allow this to happen. To safeguard our identity and culture, and to secure an American future for our people, we will immediately put an indefinite moratorium on all immigration."

And quotes Harry's Place. Miller is on record as saying the person who put the link up no longer works on the site. So not quite as they imply then.

There's quite an irony about the neo-nazi they mention. He indeed seems increasingly dodgy (though he had academic admirers earlier in his career).



Sounds like he'd fit right in on the Telegraph.

A CONTROVERSIAL academy school which saw a bitter battle over its status five years ago has posted the worst GCSE results in Islington and is one of 107 schools nationally to fail to reach minimum government targets.

They called on Lord Adonis, the Labour architect of the academy scheme who lives in Islington, to apologise publicly to pupils of the school.

The school controversially failed its Ofsted inspection in 1997. The school had received a respectable 38 per cent pass rate the previous year and despite shortcomings the staff were convinced that the school was not failing. The decision caused the school to "implode". The headteacher under enormous pressure to make visible changes discarded mixed-ability teaching, many teachers decided to leave and the pass rate dropped below 25 per cent.

Ken Muller, a teacher at the school, made a request to Ofsted under the new Freedom of Information Act to see the documents relating to the judgment. Twenty working days later, he got a reply. Most of the documents had been destroyed, said the email, but there was one that might be of interest. Attached was a memo dated November 1997, from HMI Barry Jones to the then chief inspector Chris Woodhead, making clear that the HMI team, of which Jones was a member, had disagreed with Ofsted's judgment, and noting that they were "of the unanimous view that the school was not failing".

Education Secretary Michael Gove has labelled campaigners against turning a school into an academy as "Trots".

The forthright views of the education secretary were delivered to MPs on the Commons Education Select Committee.

This was at a session in which MPs' questions were informed by 5,000 Twitter messages from the public.

Mr Gove also said he wanted to press ahead with a new performance measure showing the destinations of pupils after leaving school.

"It's a pity that the Labour party hasn't spoken out against this Trot campaign," said Mr Gove, prompting the response from the committee that Mr Gove was nothing if not controversial.