Thomas Gradgrind, in Dickens’s novel Hard Times, is obsessed with unambiguous facts and numbers. When I asked a press officer at HMRC for an estimate of how many “open cases” it plans to write off, ...
ON April 8 we were told it would take #510m to set up in a free Scotland the kind of DSS bureaucracy we thole today. Surely the real question is why not simplify and streamline social security ...
Dickens’s 'Hard Times' feels newly urgent as a classic reply to hustle culture, exposing how facts, work and usefulness can ...
The late Peter Drucker claimed to have invented the term 'the knowledge economy' in the 1960s. Whereas industrial-age workers toiled with their hands and produced 'stuff', he posited, today's ...
Thomas Gradgrind - from Hard Times - is one of Charles Dickens's coldest characters and is the twelth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters. Granada's critically acclaimed ...
A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.… ...
Simon Jenkins’ attack on the test culture imposed on our schools by the government is right (A Gradgrind ethos destroys good schools, 26 October) – except that it destroys all schools. The pressure ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Mr. Gradgrind is the alter ego of Paul Brians, professor of English at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, who sets out to provide specific, concrete answers to life's rhetorical ...
For at least the last couple of decades, education ministers from around the world have been in thrall to a ‘back-to-basics’ educational philosophy. They have preached the time-honoured virtues of ...
Suddenly, Nigeria is literally drowning in an avalanche of facts and figures on every aspect of the National Condition. There was a time, not long ago, when you could hardly hold on to anything about ...
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