Deborah Orr
Deborah Orr: This illogical vetting scheme will not safeguard our children
It's the classic children's lament: "Everybody else has got one." So it's quite droll that the reaction to Philip Pullman's refusal to register with the new Vetting and Barring Scheme is similar.
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Deborah Orr: Old age is not an illness and its care needs to be paid for
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Nobody rails at the idea babies should be cared for primarily by their families
Deborah Orr: Why is it so hard to prove the obvious?
Saturday, 11 July 2009
It's a weird old society indeed when the huge stories that are hardest to break are the ones that everybody knows are true anyway. First, it was the bankers.
Deborah Orr: The bright sparks are left behind
Saturday, 4 July 2009
The Government has this week launched another bunch of tinkering education reforms. In the main, they suffer from the same problem as every reform of anything that this Government, from now on, will ever announce.
Deborah Orr: Shrinking the state is the best way to redistribute wealth
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Progressives must lead the debate on how to restructure the funding of social support
Deborah Orr: Can we for once forget the rules?
Saturday, 27 June 2009
I can't help it. School nativities, passion plays, I still think that theatrical renditions of the life of Christ are wonderful and precious aspects of folk culture, with valuable and affirmative things to teach our children.
Deborah Orr: Exclusion just delivers children back to the source of their woes
Thursday, 25 June 2009
If a pupil is beyond a school's range of expertise, there must be a safe alternative
Deborah Orr: Blacked-out claims show just how fearful MPs are of the public
Saturday, 20 June 2009
Nadine Dorries, the Conservative MP who warned weeks ago that the Telegraph's expenses investigation was putting MPs under so much pressure that she feared that some might kill themselves, has now reported that her patio furniture has been vandalised. She says she knows it was a deliberate response to her position as an MP because she received a blog comment that she didn't post, which read: "Nice patio Nadine, or was."
Deborah Orr: The social ills caused by family breakdown cannot be ignored
Thursday, 18 June 2009
A jaundiced view of the state of parenting in Britain is hardly surprising
Deborah Orr: The immigration debate is not a right-left issue
Saturday, 13 June 2009
That long-running debate about whether the BNP should be given "the oxygen of publicity" seems finally to have resolved itself. Days after the group won two seats in the European Parliament, James W von Brunn, a US friend and supporter of the BNP, shot dead security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns at Washington's Holocaust Memorial Museum. Tragic for Johns, but a winner for anti-fascism.
Deborah Orr: We feel sorry for abused children. But what about damaged adults?
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Educational facilities for children like Sonnex have improved so little under Labour
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