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I make sense

Missives on media, marketing and more. Edited by Amar Patel

November 9, 2019

What's really inside the Trojan Horse?

by Amar Patel


Trojan Horse play Battersea Arts Centre
Trojan Horse play Battersea Arts Centre

How can a school go from being rated outstanding one year to inadequate the next? When does an investigation become a witch hunt? And who gets to decide what is appropriate to teach a child? These are some of the key questions posed in Trojan Horse, an incendiary production based on real-life events in east Birmingham.

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TAGS: Trojan Horse, Birmingham, Alum Rock, Washwood Heath, Park View school, Golden Hillock school, Saltley School, Oldknow school, Nansen school, Department for Education, Michael Gove, Sir Peter Clarke, Panora, Panorama, Birmingham City Council, Ian Kershaw, Razwan Faraz, Park View Brotherhood, Samira Shackle, british values, Professor John Holmwood, Lung theatre, Lindsey Clark, NCTL, Inamulhaq Anwar, Akeel Ahmed, Tahir Alam, Matt Woodhead, Helen Monks, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, Anderson Park School, No Outsiders, Andrew Moffat, Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, Sara Khan counter extremism, Amir Ahmed, Nazir Afzal, Gavin Williamson, Rockwood Academy


May 31, 2016

In, out, shake it all about

by Amar Patel in politics


Poster by Turner-winning artist Laure Prouvost. More EU-inspired artwork available here: http://eu-uk.info

Poster by Turner-winning artist Laure Prouvost. More EU-inspired artwork available here: http://eu-uk.info

Poster by Turner-winning artist Laure Prouvost. More EU-inspired artwork available here: http://eu-uk.info

Poster by Turner-winning artist Laure Prouvost. More EU-inspired artwork available here: http://eu-uk.info

Boris v Dave. Eton chums go head to head. It's Tory civil war. Yawn. Over the past few months, it's been frustrating to see the media so obsessed with personalities rather than the actual facts. How is the public supposed to make an informed decision on the EU debate? Forecasts are not facts and neither are estimates. You would think an MP knew the difference, well-educated lot that they are. As one Newsnight audience member quipped, 'Why do the facts change depending on who's giving them?"

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TAGS: Boris Johnson, David Cameron, EU referendum, Brexit: The Movie, Michael Gove, Question time, David Mitchell, Prime Minister's Questions, Brussels, Paul Mason, EEA agreement, Kent Matthews, Black Wednesday, Daniel Hannan MEP, Ceta, TTIP, Open Europe, Vicky Redwood economist, WTO, Robert Azevedo, Airbus, Common Agricultural Policy, George Eustace, Migration Watch, Full Fact, Steve Dowdie, John Hatt, LSE, Seamus Nevin, Marley Morris, #VoteLeave, Jon Danzig, Pierre Moscovini, Nick Clegg, Jeremy Paxman EU, John Sauven, Chris Huhne, Dr Davor Jancic, Julian Lewis, Sir Richard Dearlove, Ron Noble, Ecris, Five Eyes, Lord Evans, Sir John Sawers, Sir Jon Day, Sarah O'Connor FT, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Erasmus Programme, Wolfgang Tilllmans, Matthew Elliot