“Back to school! Back to school! Get your uniform here! The lot!”
So go the dread adverts in supermarket windows. Already? It was only early August. It was time for the bucket and spade. Winding down.
You feel a bit ill. But not as ill as the poor parents who have got to fork out for this clobber. It can cost a fortune, as so many state schools – especially the flasher academies – feel the need to ape private schools with the superficial sheen of the meretricious, the faux posh.
Back to school? Back to the 1950s more like. Back to Boris Johnson’s whizzo, Billy Bunter ‘50s.
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