Ed Balls is a weapons-grade fucking cunt: Schools are being given advice on how to prevent pupils becoming drawn to violent extremism and terrorism. Guidelines are being made available to primary and secondary schools in England to help them discuss the issues surrounding extremist views.WHAT THE FUCK???!!? Schools Secretary Ed Balls said schools could play a "key role" in getting young people to ...

Boris Johnson today accused government ministers of causing the recession that it was now "rejoicing" in. The Conservative mayor of London singled out Ed Balls, the secretary of state for children, families and schools, for particular criticism as he rejected the suggestion that the recession was the worst in more than 100 years. Johnson blamed the government for exacerbating the recession as he p...

Ed Balls has promised to take action against faith schools that pursue covert selection at the Fabian Society question time fringe debate. According to the Fabians' own report on the debate: "Schools secretary Ed Balls pledged to put faith schools...

Underperforming schools face a raft of new "interventionist" measures to bring them up to scratch Ed Balls the Schools Secretary will announce this week.

Ed Balls, Labour’s Schools Secretary responding to comments from the Conservative leader of Kent County Council and Conservative Cabinet Member for schools in Hampshire

Community cohesion and forging a British-Islamic identity are our best weapons against terrorism - and it starts at school, says Ed Balls

As Co-operative Party Conference kicks off today in Westminster Central Hall, Patrick Wintour in the Guardian trails the announcement that Ed Balls will make later about co-operative trust schools:Ed Balls, the schools secretary and only member of the Co-operative Party in the cabinet*, will today propose that 100 schools over the next two years become co-operative trust schools owned and controll...

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, is today urging people to take a long hard look at the Tories plans for schools. He is challenging the Tories to come clean on how they will pay for their two flagship schools policies &# new ‘free market’ schools and a national ‘pupil premium’. Earlier today, Ed Balls set out to Parl...

Nanny's special little pet, Ed Balls (Schools Secretary), is living up to his name by recently spouting complete shite.In his view, and this is the most amazing piece of Big Brother "double speak" that I have read in a long while, grammar schools damage educational standards.Just think about that for minute.Balls is saying that by trying to turn out well educated pupils, grammar schools are damagi...

The Daily Mail - which has the photograph - reports: Ed Balls makes great play of the fact that his Oxford contemporaries David Cameron and Boris Johnson were members of the Bullingdon Club, notorious for its rowdy drunken behaviour. Last year, 41-year-old Mr Balls declared: 'World-class education not for all, but for the privileged elite - that is Cameron Conservatism. And who is David Camer...