Dear all, Upon inheriting the Looking Glass from our predecessors, we identified a number of key issues. Firstly, there were simply not enough articles being published, due both to a lack of submissions from the school community and limited responsiveness from the previous Academic Team. Secondly, the Looking Glass had not been advertised or explained effectively enough to the wider school community. As a result, we plan to implement a more consistent and engaging stream of articles on the Looking Glass. As part of this initiative, we are looking to recruit a select group of keen writers from across the lower school who would be willing to produce one high-quality piece of writing, discussion, or media each month for publication on the Looking Glass. We believe this will be hugely beneficial both to the school community, which will gain access to a wider range of opinions and viewpoints, and to prospective writers, who will be able to reference their experience contributing to the Look...
MR R. NUTTER Following the death of Margaret Thatcher in April 2013 it seemed appropriate to re-examine privatisation, one of the former Prime Minister’s most important policies. Indeed it seemed quite likely then that a new round of privatisations was in the offing in the years ahead with Royal Mail the top of the ‘for sale’ list. Following her election in 1979 Margaret Thatcher’s government and John Major who followed her embarked on an unprecedented sale of state assets which included gas, water, electricity coal and rail. In addition British Airways, British Steel and British Telecom joined the private sector after years of state ownership. Most off these firms became public limited companies (PLCs) with their shares traded on the stock market. Although often seen as controversial at the time none of these privatised utilities were taken back into the state ownership by the subsequent the Blair and Brown Labour governments with the possible exception of Network Rail in 2003 which w...