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Jul 3, 2024 · The likes of Anthony Crosland, John Vaizey and Michael Young, Mandler claims, all came to recognise that the concept of equality of opportunity required updating to reflect the fact that the ‘pool of ability’ was not fixed but could be expanded with the right social and economic policies.
Jun 29, 2024 · (Bacon, Ms Reeves wrote, was of the same mindset as her colleague, the Labour intellectual Anthony Crosland, who promised to “destroy every fucking grammar school in England”.)
Jun 26, 2024 · In 1965 the secretary of state for education, Anthony Crosland, sent out the famous Circular 10/65 to education authorities and the comprehensive revolution began. Local education authorities were requested to submit plans for the reorganisation of secondary education in their areas on comprehensive lines and by 1979, 90 per cent had ...
Jun 20, 2024 · Anthony Crosland's 'The Future of Socialism" (1956) is arguably the most important revisionist work of the postwar era and its aim was to bring social democracy up to date for the time.
Jul 6, 2024 · At other points, various historians are misnamed – and their books attributed to the wrong authors. And a hybrid Labour politician named Richard Crossland appears in the narrative (p. 63), leaving it unclear as to whether he was Richard Crossman or Anthony Crosland.
Jun 20, 2024 · SIR – Michael Deacon’s article (Features, June 20) reminded me of Anthony Crosland, the privately educated Labour education secretary from 1965 to 1967, who said: “If it’s the last thing I ...
Jun 21, 2024 · Anthony Crosland argued in The Future of Socialism that this was the only practical way to improve the lives of the working class — a sentiment shared, albeit to a lesser extent, by...
