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 23 May 2011
Middle Muddle
Sir Max Hastings informed Andrew Marr's viewers that "the middle classes" paid twice for education, first in taxes, and then in fees. People in that position are in the middle of what, exactly? £23,000 per annum is the middle. Anyone paying that much per child even though one can, and ninety-three per cent of children do, go to school for free are not in the middle of anything.
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