01 March 2021
By Alison Ali There’s a lot of unintentional harm caught up in all the talk about the seven-month learning gap and the urgent need to catch up on the best part of a school year lost to Covid. You’d think there needs to be a mad dash to bring every child back up to where […]
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26 January 2021
A New Year’s story: How I became a full-time activist
Seven years ago, I spent New Year with my friend Artemy Troitsky and family in their dacha near Moscow. At that time, Artemy was one of Russia’s most well-known political commentators, an arch-critic of Putin and other oligarchs and a lifelong campaigner for social and political justice. He was also a rock music academic and […]
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