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Synthetic phonics. As taught to me in an old pit village under the headship of an erstwhile Labour Councillor from the Seventies, and under the aegis of the first local authority that Labour ever won, which it had never lost in eighty years even then, or in well over a hundred now. "Trendy" teaching methods were as unknown in these parts as the abolition of school uniform would have been, or would be.

The pseudo-Right is as metro-myopic as the pseudo-Left, and assumes the latter's oddities to be typical, a task now made a lot easier by the pseudo-Left's overthrow of the Labour Movement that was still going strong the best part of thirty years ago, and which remains strong enough in parts of local government to be able to keep the phonics and the school uniforms going, insofar as there is even a question mark over them in the areas in question.