Tag Archives: Gavin Williamson

Gavin Williamson appears to be deeply out of touch

Posted on October 15, 2020 by ianchisnall

An article in yesterdays Children and Young People Now magazine, written by Joe Lepper explains that Gavin Williamson, the Secretary of State for Education is referring to the challenge that according to his Departments data there are currently 2,400 children … Continue reading →

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Ministers and MPs who criticise people must be held accountable

Posted on July 3, 2020 by ianchisnall

Yesterday at lunchtime this tweet emerged from the MP for Wealden, East Sussex referring to words that a Sky journalist had expressed that came from a discussion that was taking place in Parliament at the same time. Now of course … Continue reading →

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Educational and School support is lacking from the Government

Posted on June 23, 2020 by ianchisnall

Yesterday in Parliament there was a brief discussion under the headline of Educational Disadvantage: Covid-19 and two of the elements that arose were rather disappointing. One was a request by an MP who represents the the constituency of Ashfield in … Continue reading →

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How Politicians and Journalists should correct their mistakes

Posted on May 16, 2020 by ianchisnall

As I wrote yesterday, all journalists get things wrong some of the time because like the rest of us, they are all human and we all make mistakes. Of course just like Politicians and unlike most people, they have teams … Continue reading →

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Gavin’s next final warning must go to Lee Cain & Boris Johnson

Posted on February 7, 2020 by ianchisnall

This article from todays Times is calling for a group of Independent Charities (Universities) to offer freedom of speech and freedom of listening on their premises. This is clearly a challenge as not only may this need to apply to … Continue reading →

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Ken Baker describes how Gove & colleagues have failed for last 10 years

Posted on October 30, 2019 by ianchisnall

On Monday while MPs in the House of Commons were arguing about whether to hold election no 3 in four and a half years, their colleagues in the House of Lords took part in a debate under the title “Vocational … Continue reading →

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The need for credible security and economic analysis

Posted on May 7, 2019 by ianchisnall

Last Thursday a friend of mine commented on social media about an blog that was published on ‘The Conservative Woman’ website and the title interested me ‘Britain is now ruled by civil servants‘. The website is not something I have … Continue reading →

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The need to resolve all Cabinet leaks!

Posted on May 2, 2019 by ianchisnall

As the media trawls through the problems caused by someone that the Cabinet claims is Gavin Williamson and who has apparently sworn on his children lives he was not guilty and MPs are demanding he is taken to Court, it … Continue reading →

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Government must correct Gavin’s speech

Posted on February 21, 2019 by ianchisnall

Listening to Philip Hammond on Radio 4 Today this morning it is very clear that the grasp of how offensive and damaging the recent speech by Gavin Williamson (covered in my blog here) was outside of the tall and solid … Continue reading →

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A series of confusing statements does not make a great speech

Posted on February 12, 2019 by ianchisnall

[A few days after I wrote this blog it became clear that Gavin’s criticism of China which is referred to at the end of this blog had led to the Chinese nation terminating talks with Gavin’s colleagues about free trade … Continue reading →

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