All the papers are covering the Labour government’s (predictable) plans to “diversify” the school curriculum. In plain English, anything which might suggest white men ever produced anything worthwhile will be pulled. As far as schoolchildren are concerned, Shakespeare and Admiral Nelson (among many others) are toast. And so the Cultural Revolution plods on. Just one of many reasons Starmer will be a one-term PM before Nigel takes over in Downing Street. Whereupon we can all spontaneously burst into song, maybe Oh Happy Day.
A close relative of the female persuasion started studying English Literature for A level in 2003. Some years later I happened to mention Graham Greene and she’d never heard of him. She had of course had to endure books by Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters for her course. Which reminds me of a piece we posted in 2013, a rare criticism by a female book critic of an authoress, ‘So dull. So over-rated. Jane Austen doesn’t deserve to be on the £10 note’. Enjoy.
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