Martin In The Margins

I just heard an educational 'expert' on 5 Live claiming that most parents would prefer their children to go to a school that was sa...

Seems like the Islamists are as perturbed by the boy wizard as their f ellow-fundamentalists on the Christian right. But these Iranian con...

Sorry, everything's about the dear old  Guardian (the paper we hate to love) today. The government's change of direction on cuddlin...

Am I being over-sensitive, or does anyone else find Steve Bell's cartoon , in today's Guardian,  offensive ? It's the subliminal...

Today's front page Guardian headline - 'Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary shake-up' - is the kind of thing we'v...

This blog is two years old today. It's been quite a year: at some points I wondered if I would ever again post about anything other than...

You often read about the number of civilian deaths caused by NATO forces in Afghanistan. It seems the US special forces 'have a reputat...