Poor chap can take some solace.
His political credibility may be dented, but at least he still has his matinee idol looks.

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2009/11/m ... -at-birth/

Love it. Perhaps we should start a Gove Gallery?

I fear a Gove gallery would be a massive duplication of resources.
And besides, think of the children!

There are a few others pictures at the link in my previous article.
Google unleashes a chamber of horrors.

i liked the now show's comparason...

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Local difficulty for Gove:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11186771

Did he actually say he was going to visit all the areas with cancelled buildings? What a surprise he hasn't.

Yes, he actually made a specific promise to Sandwell. And then bottled it.

There's been another one today as well.

I don't think he'll last - he certainly won't survive the first reshuffle (which may be when Hague goes).

I was thinking he was unsackable because his policy is a right-wing totem. But incompetence might do for him, just as it did for the equally militant John Patten.

I'm not in the least surprised he bottled it, but what on earth was he doing promising to go to all the places in the first place? Could it be that writing shit in a newspaper isn't good preparation for being a cabinet minister?

16 free schools might open in 2011. Seems like that "interest" was overstated.

Is it just me, or is there some knife-sharpening going on at D.M. Towers?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -year.html

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Think you're right. They're seeing him as a liability.

Ed Balls has gone up in my estimation for at least doing some shadowing while he competes for the leadership, unlike some of the others.

Private eye was nice about Gove "looking again" at the building for schools programme. Anyone know what their beef with the programme is?

the Other Taxpayers Alliance are on Gove's case:

http://www.taxpayersalliance.org/news/d ... -after-all

Rumours of the recession must be exaggerated. Politically correct rubbish is still rolling in it:

We all knew the academy programme was potentially disastrous, and this demonstrates precisely why:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/201 ... my-schools

I'm amazed the Tories haven't stopped them doing this.

There's not that much power in running a couple of schools. Deplorable, of course, but it isn't worth Murdoch doing it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11458137

Some sensible stuff here about anonymity until charge, which the NASUWT agree with. I'd be very surprised though if teachers weren't allowed to break up fights at the moment.

and


There are people who want to take over all sorts of things. Why are they going to be any better than the LEA?

Here's The Guardian interview, with at least one WTF moment:



Men didn't want to be primary school teachers because they couldn't cuddle crying children?

I thought men were underrepresented in primary education because of the nudge-wink culture and the assumptions that if you wanted to work with small children, you were either a perv or a pooftah.

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