Nicky Morgan has just had a major initiative. One sport, above all, can teach these things. Lacrosse? Croquet? The Eton Wall Game? No – rugby. Its “core values” will be a “core part” of her “core mission” to deliver real social justice in “tomorrow’s Britain”.
Core blimey! So, what are these values? Things like integrity, respect, resilience, discipline, and grit. That area. She’s very big on “grit”. We seem to be in a world of Lord Baden Powell, cold showers and Kipling’s If. Top rugby stars will be role-models and deliver this stuff to the more disadvantaged in our schools.
Wait a minute! Weren’t top England stars recently arrested? Danny Cipriani on suspicion of drink-driving; Manu Tuilagi for assaulting two female police officers and a taxi driver? And wasn’t Dylan Hartley suspended for head-butting another player?
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