The Office for Students is officially described as, "A group of business executives who are to help head the Government's drive to apply market forces to higher education in England."
But Toby Young is not a business executive. He is the kind of media dynast that it is impossible to drum out, and he has lately also become a failed dilettante educationalist whose record with drugs would have disqualified anyone less well-connected from any contact whatever with children, including his own.
But Toby Young is not a business executive. He is the kind of media dynast that it is impossible to drum out, and he has lately also become a failed dilettante educationalist whose record with drugs would have disqualified anyone less well-connected from any contact whatever with children, including his own.
His admission to Oxford is politely ascribed to an administrative error in what we are supposed to treat as a funny story, but it was in fact arranged over the telephone by his father in an example of the right-wing Labour oligarchy at its very worst.
He has described children with disabilities as "functionally illiterate troglodytes", and working-class students at Oxford, people who unlike him had earned their places, as "small, vaguely deformed" "stains". He is a proponent of "progressive eugenics", yet he has the gall to compare Momentum, on which he is bizarrely treated as an authority, to Britain First.
The appointment of this person needs to be raised on the floor of the House of Commons as a matter of the utmost urgency.
He has described children with disabilities as "functionally illiterate troglodytes", and working-class students at Oxford, people who unlike him had earned their places, as "small, vaguely deformed" "stains". He is a proponent of "progressive eugenics", yet he has the gall to compare Momentum, on which he is bizarrely treated as an authority, to Britain First.
The appointment of this person needs to be raised on the floor of the House of Commons as a matter of the utmost urgency.
I’ve never laughed so hard as at reading that Toby Young supports “eugenics.” Hahaha!
ReplyDeleteWhat is hilariously called “eugenics” (by the leftwing loons in the education establishment who wrecked our state schools) is otherwise known as basic biology.
That IQ has a genetic component and varies among people is a proven scientific fact.
Non-selective comprehensive education-like most mad utopian left wing schemes-is based on a denial of human nature.
Grammar schools are based on the obvious truth that not all children have the same intellectual capabilities-just as we don’t all have the same physical capabilities- so they shouldn’t all go to the same school.
A “non-selective” school makes about as much sense as a “non-selective” Olynpic team.
Grammar schools are a dead issue once and for all after the last General Election, but IQ is an astonishingly persistent lie. There is no such thing as IQ, and if you believe that there is, then you are probably, heaven help you, Toby Young.
DeleteI have never taken an IQ test in my life. I question whether anyone who sets any store by them is sufficiently intelligent to be allowed out alone, if at all. For example, Toby Young.
The whole thing depends on “mental age”, whatever that may be. The IQ of children in numerous countries has “improved” dramatically over the years when IQ tests have been set, and therefore taught to, in schools. Indeed, that never fails to happen.
The publications of Mensa are a particularly rich seam of amusement. “More people than you might think are above average”? I’m guessing about half of them. “One person in 20 is in the top five per cent”? You don’t say! And so on. But never try and tell the “I have a high IQ” lot any of this.
You wouldn’t have to, and indeed you never could, do anything to get a high IQ, even if such a thing really existed. Having it would be no cause for congratulation, still less for self-congratulation or for the creation of an international society for mutual congratulation.
Never mind for the creation and maintenance, at public expense, of an entire network of highly prestigious schools for those who were deemed to have been born with this imaginary attribute.
He used the term "progressive eugenics" himself, you pillock. Follow the link.
DeleteBoth this post and your reply to Little Master Silly Boy are outstanding even by your very high standards. This appointment is obscene.
ReplyDeleteGovernment saying he held a "post at Cambridge". He started a PhD, did a bit of casual teaching as doctoral students do, but never completed. That's not "a post".
ReplyDeleteThey gave Social Mobility Tsar to Alan Milburn, another one who has never completed his doctorate.
DeleteYou can't talk. You were still at university when your local political mates got you made a governor of a major school, your second governorship, by removing a lecturer at that same university. She'd been a governor of that school since you were a pupil there. Now those same individuals want you to be the MP for this seat instead of Laura Pidcock, they are prepared to give up 40 or 50 years of Labour Party membership to back you. Your tombstone should be engraved "It's not what you know, it's who you know".
ReplyDeleteThe famous Linda Burton, as a University of Durham drinking song almost has it. Say what you like about Toby Young's mate, Michael Gove. But at least he abolished Linda Burton. Yes, she lost her school governorship to a man in his early twenties. But what did that say about her?
DeleteImagine if Jeremy Corbyn had appointed anyone to anything who advocated "progressive eugenics", called disabled children "troglodytes", opposed wheelchair access to schools, and called working-class students "stains" on Oxford despite only getting in there on a family connection himself.
ReplyDeleteAppointed by Jo Johnson, a Bullingdon Club member. This is the same mentality as burning a £50 note in front of a homeless person. Johnson has done both.
ReplyDeleteWe can get him on the drugs thing, he openly admitted to supplying Class A. Any academic would be sacked for that and any student would be sent down.
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