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.
Saturday 22 January 2011
Learn The Lesson Well
Woman of the Hour, Michael Gove's favourite teacher, Katharine Birbalsingh, already on Any Questions, used that platform to repeat the old Thatcherite hostility to church schools and to Christian collective worship in schools. We have been warned. Where are the heirs of the cross-party alliance of Peers that saw off this threat in the Eighties?
"Where are the heirs of the cross-party alliance of Peers that saw off this threat in the Eighties?"
ReplyDeleteSitting around at home. Hereditary peers have been scrapped since the 1980s.
Oh, it wasn't them. Not primarily.
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