Exclusive: James O’Shaughnessy Returns to Policy Exchange
After leaving Downing Street a few months ago, in less than clear circumstances, policy-chief James O’Shaughnessy popped back onto the radar in this morning’s Times. Not only has he penned a passionate article about Gove’s education reforms, but he’s put his money where his mouth is:
“This is why I left Downing Street to start a new social business that aims to operate schools and to provide educational services based on a blend of traditional values and positive psychology: because after ten years as a policy wonk I believe that lasting change will only happen from the bottom up.”
However his blue sky days aren’t quite over yet. Having left Policy Exchange in 2007 to go to work for Cameron, Guido hears on the wonk-vine that he is on his way back to his ideological home. Policy Exchange are heading into their tenth year and are said to be lining up some big projects to celebrate. Guido understands that O’Shaughnessy will be coming back part-time to work, surprisingly enough, on the education side of things. You read it here first…
Can these wonkers just FUCK OFF.
They do more harm than good.
Not if they get some hands-on real world experience. Too early to judge.
For fuck’s sake, fucking wankers.
Good laugh last night. Best show on telly
Shouldn’t he be back at school now?
‘From the bottom up’.
He’s talking my language.
A social business?, now there’s novelty for you.
Friends??
Work?????
To be fair, constant “name dropping” on twitter is hard work you know and dealing with Gordon even more so.
Oh, I bet it involves getting up at 06:00, quick shower, breakfast, dash to the car, drive to the petrol station, fill it up with about 20% of the week’s wages, sit in traffic for an hour, fork-out 1.5 hours’ wages on a carpark ticket and then knuckle-down to something exciting like cold-calling on behalf of a double-glazing company. With a 20 minute break for lunch.
All the time thinking about how wonderful it is that Gordon Brown doubled her income tax from 10 to 20%, and that he left the UK so fiscally fucked that the tax rate won’t be cut any time in the next 10 years.
bloody brilliant!
pretty sure the whole world is fiscally f***ed (barring germany, brazil and china) and it wasn’t all GB’s fault. That’s not to say he’s blameless, but then he was only following Tory economic policy in not regulating the city more…
Fund-raising for the Gordon Brown charity.
What a waste of space this woman is fully on par with her husband. In the words of Mrs Doyle ‘Can you picture him Father wanting you?’ She must have been labotomised as part of the wedding cermony to endure it is the only explanation.
The discovery of a woman’s body on the Queen’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk is being treated as murder, police have said.
At least Philip has an alibi.
BBC is focused on a murderer with more than six firearms.
much more important than the murder itself.
i suppose bbbc is following the disarm the nation script.
i prefer they stay focused on the murder.
(note: even Neo in the Matrix could only use two weapons. six or sixty – who cares? – ok bbbc cares . . .).
My name’s Psycho. Psycho Brown.
Good for him, but I will order in the popcorn ahead of Mr O’Shaughnessy’s first clash with the,”All Must Have Prizes”, dinosaurs in education and the teaching unions. Repairing Crossland’s and the unspeakable Shirley William’s devastation of the English and Welsh education system has been impossible for the last 50 years. It would be good if Gove, O’Shaughnessy and the other reformers can get within sight of the end of the tunnel.
In my contry is considered gesture of affection
Hmm. If being “just a burden on society” is going to be a capital offence, that bodes ill for Labour’s core voters.
Make him serve his time in an Indian jail.
Err, there is the small matter of a fair trial, subject to ability to stand trial first.
Him guilty, mon. Hang he by his bollocks.
Sub judice
“he’s put his money where his mouth is:”
Whose money?
His money, in his bank account, that he’s using to start his business?
Or he might have borrowed it from a bank.
You could email him and find out.
Let’s see.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2007/05/james_oshaughne.html#more
old article discussing the debate about more or less grammar schools.
closing of the grammar schools
the end of social mobility
+1
He sounds like another Tory “progressive” wankstain who’ll try and latch onto some profit making education provider supplying services to non profit making schools.
Stop the Junk Mail
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/mps_choosetype.html
Fiddling while Rome burns comes to mind…
Emma West today, tomorrow – you.
what about Rose West ?
Starbucks Corp is raising prices by an average of about 1 percent in the U.S. Northeast and Sunbelt regions on Tuesday, a move affecting cities such as New York, Boston, Washington DC, Atlanta, Dallas and Albuquerque.
Oh dear, however will Muffie and Buffie and Trey and Skip cope?
None of us gives a shit what pointless think-tank bores like O’Shaughnessy are doing, Guido.
But then you don’t give a shit beyond this week’s Eastenders and getting pissed on Friday night.
Don’t forget football– the British public are more apt to want a hapless manager sacked than a crooked politician, because of the effect in terms of the immediate cost, i.e. betting losses v. overall cost to taxpayers of corruption and inefficiency. Not to mention that many of those who bet on football often aren’t paying taxes like the rest of the public.
Lasting changes in Mrs Rupert have been from the Bottom up too