Hello from London, Turven.
I’ve been doing a filmed interview about the paid work. Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it infamy as Kenneth Williams used to say. It will be aired on some obscure YouTube channel watched by two drunk people who are already asleep. Anyway….
I am still wading through the bundle of Times cuttings my friend sent to me. The majority of them are about or stemming from the Policy Exchange report, so I intend to do an education special- bet you can’t wait!
I am doing this on my IPhone BTW so can’t do images!! [postscript - I have now attached one:)]
However my friend sent a random one which is not exactly on subject but I thought you might enjoy it. It is from Giles Coren on 1 April:
“I was delighted to read this week that the site of the Battle of Hastings is to be concreted over at last. But talk about too little too late. I’ve been waiting 957 years for this. Because in a world where we are pulling down statues of everyone apart from Mary Seacole and where the Guardian is cancelling itself in its own pages for not being woke enough 200 years ago, how could we possibly have continued to let the bluebell woods of the Normanton Estate in East Sussex go untarmacked?”
He continues:
“I, for one, have always been horribly triggered by the continued use of place names such as ‘Hastings’ and ‘Battle’ in these parts, even though as it happens, my own ancestors were 1500 miles away at the time, cowering in caves from antisemitic Mongols on the Asian steppe. But where your own people were at the moment of any historical crime does not, in this game, affect either your imperial guilt or the validity of your claim for reparations.And I will have you ( and your lawyers) know that I have been suffering from PTSD about the Norman Conquest since studying it for Common Entrance in 1981!”
Anyway…until I get back home, this isn’t over yet! Please subscribe for free, like and comment.