Many years ago I started work in the publications department of an old-established City institution.  I was a lowly editorial assistant, and I fetched coffee and accompanied photographers and did a lot of filing, in the basement of a beautiful building, but in an environment where I never saw natural light, and everything was either […]

Until the moment I withdrew my sons from state education in the UK, I confused education with schooling.  It’s a common mistake, and one which is easier to make if you have been through the state education machine yourself.  The state spends considerable amounts of money – our money! – persuading us that the two […]