Toby Young and Fiona Millar are two educational campaigners on opposite ends of opinion over the coalition. Toby Young is famous for his journalism and his comic novel How To Lose Friends And Alienate People (adapted for screen starring Simon Pegg). However he is more recently known as a pro-Free Schools campaigner who actually setting up the http://www.westlondonfreeschool.co.uk/.
Fiona Millar is an an educational journalist and campaigner who is married to Blair's famous
spin doctor Alister Campbell. She is an ardent critic of Gove, Free Schools New Academies etc.
Here is a vitriolic Young attack on Millar from a couple of years ago:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100063414/five-questions-for-fiona-millar/
Here are links to Millar's Guardian articles
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/fionamillar
Both of these characters are excellent suggestions for synoptic knowledge for education policy in this unit.
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