I’m meant to be perking you up here. That’s the brief. Well, lately, I’m having a hard time perking myself up. I’m glumming down. Why? Clots still rule, dunderheads are still in the ascendance. Catastrophes are blooming, psychopaths are honoured, Jewish schools are threatened, mosques are burned, the Daily Mail reveals that my old school hatched several jihadists – and now a Commons Committee tells us that the Coalition’s flagship multi-million education policies are an utter omnishambles.
Well, knock me down with feathers.
I gaze at the drizzle outside my kitchen window. A figure jogs by. It is Michael Gove in motion. It’s not poetry. I’m not hallucinating. Honest. The great man is a neighbour. He runs by at a fair clip. I expect to see a stampede of raging teachers in hot pursuit.
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