Boris is out as editor the Spectator (resigned)… …and in as Shadow Higher Education Secretary. Looks like his admission that he voting Cameron out of naked self-interest has done him no harm at all. Suddenly Education Questions in the House may become worth watching although, unlike the Beeb, […]

Oh dear, it seems the publishing world has got itself in rather a snit over the prospect of Waterstone’s proposed takeover of the Ottakar’s chain, as Simon Jenkins notes here: “Waterstone’s, once “the beautiful place”, was this week referred to the Competition Commission for trying to gobble up […]