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At the chalkface: Carry On Culture Wars

Teaching staff
What’s next? The stocks? The guillotine? Cotton-picking? This may play well in the shires, but surely not on most of the country. And certainly not with our pupils. The young don’t buy it – they never have...


The Culture Wars have been raging like billyho over the summer. No doubt they’ll be preying on your September classrooms like those monsters in Goya’s sleep of reason – a specious, manufactured, craven, nuance-shredding, trigger-pressing racket hatched by the right to divert attention from their cruel, divisive governance.

Pantomime gestures, idiot binaries, false moral equivalences hold sway.

You know how they go.

Here’s just a few of them.

So it goes. The far right – is there any other kind these days? – would seem to be winning the “argument”.

The left, “virtue signallers”, “snowflakes”, teachers, me, seem to be losing it.

Until now.

Now I’m not so sure.

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