Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.