School's Out

Congratulations to the Government on unveiling what Michael Gove's One And Only Tory Policy would look like in the most unlikely event that it ever reached the stage of being presented to Parliament as a Bill.

"Grammar schools"? Did someone say "grammar schools"? No, of course not. That, including in the form of the excellent Secondary Moderns that would thus be restored, would be to the benefit of exactly the sort of people whose presence alongside the offspring of upper-middle-class metropolitan hysterics has caused those hysterics to force this unseemly bidding war.