Reform held seminars on saving money in schools with John McIntosh, former head of the London Oratory School, and in the police service with Julie Spence, Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire Constabulary. The Reform team blogged about the events on CentreRight (schools; police). Writing in the Yorkshire Post, Reform’s Director, Andrew Haldenby, sets out the benefits [...]

Hearing that banks are involved in eduaction is worrying enough to publish this information. Make of it what you will. I am reminded of the saying ; “If there is smoke, there is fire”. See also the archives of this site for related information such as this. Parents and anyone who has anything to do [...]

On 5th December 2006 in a ceremony in the London Oratory, H.S.H. Prince Rupert zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Count of Loewenstein-Scharffeneck, Vice-President of the Deputation and President of the British Association of the Order was invested as a knight commander with star of the Pontifical Order of St Gregory the Great, in recognition of his services over [...]

“A BRILLIANT schoolboy killed himself after calmly deciding there was no point to his life, an inquest heard yesterday. Dario Iacoponi, 15, spent two months analysing whether to live or die in his diary. Coroner Dr John Burton said: “On the very last entry, there are two pages of pros and cons and he came [...]

“ A pupil at one of the country’s top state schools has been found shot dead. The 15-year-old boy was found with a gunshot wound to the head at his west London home on Tuesday evening. A suicide note is believed to have been left nearby. Dario Iacoponi attended The London Oratory in Fulham, west [...]

“THE jealously-guarded serenity of the Oratory School, London’s premier Catholic state school and alma mater of Tony Blair’s sons Euan and Nicky, is about to be rocked by an unholy row. Gay campaigners are planning an unprecedented protest after the school’s choir suddenly cancelled its plan to raise money for the Terrence Higgins Trust, one [...]

“Euan was recently appointed a deputy head boy at his school, the grant-maintained Roman Catholic London Oratory, in Fulham, south-west London, where he is studying for A-levels. Last year, he was found drunk and incapable on the pavement outside the Odeon in Leicester Square, London, and was detained by police at Charing Cross police station. [...]

“The school where the Prime Minister sent his three eldest children says it will comply with the law and stop interviewing prospective pupils if the Government gives the admission code legal force. But John McIntosh, its headmaster, said the school would be seeking “alternative arrangements” to determine the religious commitment of applicants because of the [...]

“Top-performing faith schools take more bright pupils than some grammar schools, a new analysis has revealed…. The London Oratory catholic school, in west London, where Tony Blair sent his eldest sons, takes more than half its pupils from the top quartile.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3406347/Bright-pupils-win-more-places-at-faith-schools.html

“A group of boys have been excluded from the prestigious school which Tony Blair’s children attended after a film of them apparently taking drugs was posted on the internet. The teenage pupils of the London Oratory school are said to have put a clip on the popular video-sharing website YouTube in which they appear to [...]

“This is a talk that was at the London Oratory called finding love in a superficial age. The lighting isn’t great, but hope you like it.”

“POLICE and social workers are investigating child abuse claims against a former chaplain at the Roman Catholic London Oratory school, where Tony Blair’s two elder sons are pupils. The inquiry began yesterday after a number of young people made detailed allegations about Fr David Martin through ChildLine. The charity passed the information to the Hammersmith [...]

“Martin Smith, 32, who taught at the London Oratory school, was found dead in his flat by his boyfriend, Renato Piuma, an air steward. Mr Piuma went to the flat in Bloomsbury after the school raised the alarm when Mr Smith failed to arrive for work. A TEACHER committed suicide by swallowing up to 90 [...]