Harriet Sergeant

Harriet Sergeant

Author

Harriet Sergeant an author, journalist and Fellow of the Centre For Policy Studies, an independent, right of centre Think Tank. She has written six reports for the CPS, including ‘Handle with Care – an investigation into the care system’ and ‘Wasted – the betrayal of white working class and black Caribbean boys.’ Her reports have been serialised in the Daily Mail and the Telegraph and received extensive press coverage. Five have made front page headlines in the Daily Mail. Apart from other journalism, she writes Comments for the Daily Mail and The Sunday Times and review for the Spectator.  She has also appeared on The Moral Maze, the World Tonight, the Today Programme, Any Questions, the Big Question, News 24 and Sky News amongst others.  She has also been invited to appear on Question Time.

Harriet’s previous books include Between the Lines:  Conversations in South Africa (Cape, 1985), Shanghai – A History of Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s (Cape, 1991) and The Old Sow in the Back Room: An Englishwoman in Japan(John Murray 1994).

Her latest book, Among the Hoods, the story of her three year friendship with a South London gang, was published by Faber in July 2012.

Publications

Harriet Sergeant @HarrietSergeant

Ghost children: the pupils who never came back after lockdown https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ghost-children-the-pupils-who-never-came-back-after-lockdown/ via @spectator One teacher says a third of pupils at her good, all girls school only come in intermittently: 30 are missing and 2 committed suicide. 'The pandemic diminished their life chances.'

Does the Treasury measure the impact of a quarter of a million new people a year on housing, schools, the NHS, net zero or the environment? And if not, why not? https://twitter.com/oflynnsocial/status/1639944386363498496

Humza Yousaf is the first Muslim leader of a western country.

Economically America is doing better than either Europe or the UK. But on everything else, the world's super power, 'is driving itself mad.' A great piece from the ever wonderful @DouglasKMurray. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/25/america-consumed-terrifying-new-madness/

This is in Lebanon. Don’t forget what the Left tells us. Hijab is fine because women have a choice. They don’t.

Does the Treasury measure the impact of a quarter of a million new people a year on housing, schools, the NHS, net zero or the environment? And if not, why not?

I spoke about the Ghost Children of lockdown today with @TiceRichard on @TalkTV. Heartbreaking to take calls from parents with children who have suffered from lockdown and lost all enjoyment in their schooling and hope for their future. https://twitter.com/harrietsergeant/status/1639277431654608897

I spoke about the Ghost Children of lockdown today with @TiceRichard on @TalkTV. Heartbreaking to take calls from parents with children who have suffered from lockdown and lost all enjoyment in their schooling and hope for their future.

Wish @ClassicFM would do a version of Desert Island Discs about BOOKS and Music, ideally chaired by @antonia_writes . Many authors are in dialogue with music, classical or pop of folk.

Ghost children: the pupils who never came back after lockdown. This by ⁦@HarrietSergeant⁩ is truly shocking. 140,000 children now chronically absent from school with little being done to address the problem. A slowly building societal disaster https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ghost-children-the-pupils-who-never-came-back-after-lockdown/

Labour eager to raise taxes. Not a word on how to make the state more efficient and give value for money - Labour consider inheritance tax rise in further raid on middle classes https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/24/labour-consider-inheritance-tax-rise-raid-middle-classes/

‘The ghost children’

A sketch which speaks a thousand words. Important and heartbreaking read from @HarrietSergeant on the implications of lockdowns for school children.

There’s nothing complex about it. Either you fail the children in your school. Or you don’t. If you do, they face a life time sentence of despair and misery from which they rarely recover from.

He was the Safer Schools officer? Is this a joke?

As someone who has written four books, this is brilliant and true.

BBC told Kirsty Lang not to ‘say goodbye’ on leaving Front Row https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/24/bbc-told-kirsty-lang-not-to-say-goodbye-leaving-front-row?CMP=share_btn_tw Awful behaviour towards yet another @BBCRadio4 star. @thatkirstylang will be much missed for her humour, intelligence, fair-mindedness and knowledge.

This happens to so many children. It should never be acceptable.

@HarrietSergeant I despair at the lack of concern for underachievement at my son's primary.
We had to consistently push in the face of statements that our son was "doing ok" when he couldn't read the simplest books or count reliably to 100.