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Mandatory branded school uniforms, often sourced exclusively from single suppliers, are costing families hundreds of pounds per child per year. What's sold as an equaliser has become an engine of inequality and shame for working-class households.
At just ten years old, children in England can be held criminally responsible — younger than anywhere else in Europe. This system doesn't protect society — it manufactures lifelong disadvantage for the most vulnerable children while ignoring evidence-based alternatives that actually work.
Grammar schools don't drive social mobility—they entrench advantage for children whose parents can afford tutoring. The persistent political belief in selective education masks a two-tier system that punishes children for the accident of their postcode and parental income.
Ofsted's binary grading system has driven headteachers to suicide and caused mass teacher exodus. This investigation reveals how the inspection regime punishes poverty while protecting a broken system that prioritises league tables over learning.
Britain's Prevent programme has become a tool of institutional Islamophobia that treats an entire faith community as suspects while far-right violence escalates unchecked. The statistics reveal a counter-terrorism strategy that has lost its way, criminalising classroom conversations while missing the real threats to public safety.
Britain's student loan system was sold as democratising higher education, but has morphed into a decades-long income surcharge that punishes middle earners while the wealthy escape early. The 2023 repayment threshold freeze exposes the lie at its heart.
While state schools battle collapsing concrete and overcrowded classrooms, private institutions enjoy tax exemptions worth hundreds of millions. Britain's two-tier education system isn't broken by accident — it's designed to entrench class division.