Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Monday 13 August 2007
A Real Tonic
The Government’s “G&T” (Gifted and Talented) programme is apparently supposed to include the most academic ten per cent of pupils. I am sure that they are delighted to be singled out from their peers like this, only to have to return to normal lessons, to the playground, to the canteen, to the bus home, and so forth. So how about this for wheeze: why not have schools specifically for that identified ten per cent, or, better still, for double or even triple that number, but no more? Whatever might such institutions be called?
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