Just... wow. Tony Benn came into our school today to talk to the Sixth Form. However much you might or might not agree with his politics, Benn is a legend who speaks passionately and engagingly. Rather nerdishly, we waited outside to get front row seats, including Sanna, who sneakily missed PE to be there, and the room quickly filled with students and teachers - determined to ask their own questions!

Anyway, there was a bit of a debate at the end when I pressed Benn on his insistence on the national state. Globalisation, I put forward, was a good thing because it offered workers in poorer countries a new opportunity for employment and wealth. And, if the world could be a fairer place with universal standards of wages and health and safety, Benn agrees in the end. He's also a technologist - which is pleasing, because I agree entirely with Benn on this - our future depends on technology going forward.

On a totally different note, I'm super-excited (as a Microsoft blog would say) to promote RV Blog - Nic's re-launched network of eager bloggers. Check it out, and stay up to date with the feed on the right.