All articles written by Lord Knight of Weymouth on PoliticsHome.com

27 Sep 2024 Books & culture

'This is the story I wanted to hear': Lord Knight reviews 'Unceasing War on Poverty'

Compelling and comprehensive, though at times too long, Michael Ward has produced an illuminating study of Beatrice and Sidney Webb

13 Feb 2023 Economy

We must work to help unlock the potential of apprenticeships

Governments around the world are grappling with some huge challenges, but this feels especially acute here in the UK.

18 Aug 2022 Education

This year will be the toughest fight for university places in living memory

This summer, most politicians have all eyes on the next prime minister. One of the more bizarre policy pledges of the Tory leadership contest was the idea of guaranteeing a place at Oxbridge for anyone with three A*s at A Level.

22 Apr 2022 Books & culture

Compelling: Lord Knight reviews 'About Our Schools'

Detailed and insightful, Tim Brighouse and Mick Waters’ study of four decades of education policy and practice should be required reading for anyone trying to make sense of schooling in England

17 Jan 2022 Environment

To win, Labour must become the party of rural Britain

We start 2022 with the country reeling from a huge surge of pandemic infection, and the government reeling from a collapse in support in its traditional rural heartlands.

25 Jun 2018 Economy

Lord Knight: Easing the burden of parental bereavement

It is every parent’s worst nightmare to lose a child. They deserve protection in law to give them the time they need to grieve, writes Lord Knight

11 Jun 2018 Economy

Lord Knight: I’m an evangelist for technology – but we should all be concerned by its abuse

The attack on our democracy revealed by the Cambridge Analytica scandal raises fundamental questions about our legal system’s failure to keep up, warns Lord Knight, ahead of Thursday's debate on the abuse of social media data