“can’t establish a connection to the server at 404.”

“Fabian tract 404″

404!

Dear Heaven, you’re right. Surely no conceivable world outside the realms of dystopian fantasy could have produced four hundred and four Fabian tracts?

I’m hoping the number just means that it was written in Room 101, but three floors up.

404!

Dave is the Ted Heath de nos jours

was held up in Smite purgatory for a while.

I see nowt to disagree with in any of the other comments, either.

Readers may notice that I have broken my own rule forbidding stealth editing of my own posts after more than an hour has gone by since first publication. The rule does not apply to spelling corrections, misplaced apostrophes, or jokes I only thought of later.

Though the grammar and secondary modern system was by no means ideal (at least three types of school would be much better than two) it is certainly better than what we have now.

Crossland’s philosophy of education, which continues, is wrong in at least four ways:

(i) that enforced equality is better than meritocracy;

(ii) that elitism and meritocracy are the same thing;

(iii) that one size fits all;

(iv) that pushing down is the same as pulling up.

Best regards

By gum, though, when you think that Edward Heath was once seriously feared as a rampaging warrior of laissez faire, there is no difference worth much.

Heath campaigned as, won and initially governed as just such a thing. Google “Selsdon Man” if you want to see the evidence. Then when the going got tough, he bottled it and his government turned into the weaselly incompetent Butskellite mess we all know and revile.

Dave is the Ted Heath de nos jours

“If it’s the last thing I do, I’m going to destroy every fucking grammar school in England. And Wales and Northern Ireland”

Thereby cutting the rungs of the ladder of social mobility for every working class kid with brains on purely ideological grounds. What an utter asshole, eh?