The quicksilver intellect of education secretary Gavin Williamson has been much exercised with the RSHE curriculum, hatching edicts for you all.
The most salient concerns “political impartiality” in the classroom. It is “incredibly important”. There must be “no extreme political stances”. And none is more extreme than suggesting, nay intimating. that capitalism – the present unfettered, unregulated, ruinous variety, whereby one per cent have wealth beyond the dreams of Croesus – might for a moment be questioned or examined. It’s illegal. Criminal.
Time for a flashback…
In 1988, I went on a half-term jaunt to East Berlin with something called the West London Communist Teachers. Our leader was called Dot – “Red Dot” – a jolly round woman with a woolly red tea cosy on her bonce.
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