Conversations with the Minister

'Conversations with the Minister' is a satirical meditation on the state of education in England based on a series of discussions between a bright philosophically disposed Rosie Gracechurch and a clever if uncompromising Secretary of State for Education. Current political thinking is ruthlessly explored with the exchanges between Rosie and the Minister becoming increasingly unsettling and combative as they transact a ferocious battle of ideas. the encounters take place in all manner of venues and are as comic as they are challenging covering a wide range of issues including regulation school inspection discipline are literature philosophy and politics This is a book-of-the-moment aiming to amuse provokeinform and entertain those concerned about the deeply conflicted current state of education in the UK the USA and beyond.