Back To School

Good news. An Academy in Consett to be sponsored by God's Own University, the sort of body that should do this sort of thing, if it must be done at all. Let's just keep it off Consett Village Green.

But also bad news. The annual round of shrieking by those who have failed to get their precious little darlings into a comprehensive which comprehensively admits the right sort, and so fear that they must make do with a comprehensive which comprehensively admits the wrong sort. Have you spotted the deliberate mistake?

Oh, and ignore Michael Gove. He has no interest in domestic policy, only has the brief in order to keep his demented foreign policy views out of the media, won't be given it in whatever coalition is thrown up by the impending hung Parliament, and would never succeed in getting anything like his present scheme as far as a Bill on the floor of either House.