It’s not left vs right it’s excellence vs mediocrity

Who needs Dave Spart when we have, er, Paul Foot in the Grauniad? Here he is class-struggle ranting about the right to keep crap schools in crap areas, anything excellent is “snob” and undesirable, wanting to pull all pupils down to the least common denominator and deny hard-working aspirational parents the chance to give their kids the best education possible. Er, shurely his piece is a clever parody, isn’t it?…