Stephen Tall

Here’s today’s hand-picked selection that caught my interest…

• Tom Harris MP: I can't stand the heat, so I'm leaving the kitchen – Telegraph
  Good article by Tom Harris explaining resignation from Lab shad cab – except his conclusion: only freaks need apply http://bit.ly/11vdXU3
• Carlton couple return from holiday to find grass by their street cut to different lengths | Nottingham Post
  AWFUL AND SHOCKING: “Carlton couple return from holiday to find grass by their street cut to different lengths” http://bit.ly/11uZt6k
• Michael Gove's new GCSEs: a complete guide | Education | guardian.co.uk
  “Isn’t having 8 as the top mark counter-intuitive?” I genuinely don’t understand *this* problem in Gove reforms http://bit.ly/11uXhMh
• Michael Gove: Whitehall's examiner-in-chief | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
  Guardian backs Gove exam reforms (mostly) http://bit.ly/11uWT0f Imagine their leader writers’ pain…
• Jonathan Portes reviews ‘The British Dream’ by David Goodhart · LRB 20 June 2013
  “An exercise in scapegoating”: @jdportes eviscerates @David_Goodhart’s The British Dream in this LRB essay http://bit.ly/170Y8x9
• Performance pay | Toolkit | The Education Endowment Foundation
  @IsabelHardman Ta for the follow. On teachers’ perf related pay btw worth looking at this http://bit.ly/14vr0dn [/takes work hat off]
• Ed Balls’s office passed fine dining bills to taxpayers – Telegraph
  .@tom_watson’s FOI request to embarrass Gove backfires: Telegraph has fun w/ Ed Balls’s office’s credit card history http://bit.ly/17FBc65
• Farewell alarm clocks and hello John Major: Nick Clegg’s new strategy
  “It’s not a postcode lottery when decisions made by people who can be held to account. That’s a postcode democracy” http://bit.ly/11tIFwD
• Timeline Photos | Facebook
  Caption comp waiting to happen, feat @emcmillanscott & @DavidWardMP via @samfisk93 > http://on.fb.me/13y7Q3P