Swedish Self-Assembly

Schools, apparently. To be copied by David Cameron if he made it to Number 10. Do you believe that? No, neither do I.

No one who doesn't read either the Spectator or a few tribally Tory blogs has ever heard of any of this. Or ever will hear of it. This is about getting out the core of the core Tory vote, a perceived need which in itself speaks volumes. When this and the Wisconsin-style welfare scheme are denounced in the Guardian and on the BBC, then I will believe that they really exist at all.

"A system where pupils choose schools, and not vice versa"? Like we've never heard that one before! And as for "a striking convergence of ideology around the case for school liberalisation", all that that means is that no other view ever enters the single shared brain cell of the Westminster Village think-tank set.

Who, of course, will dream up anything - anything - other than the return of the grammar schools, only in the absence of which were they themselves admitted to university.