Oh well, today sees the release of the Ajegbo report on Diversity and Citizenship in the national curriculum, which means yet more harping on about ‘Britishness’ as is obvious from the Beeb’s opening gambit… Schools in England should teach “core British values” alongside cultural diversity, a report says. […]

In the Independent, Mary Dejevsky is happily professing her support for the churches on ‘gay adoption’. My late, never-married, Aunt Mary went as an Anglican missionary to Persia. She became headmistress – she would have recognised no other word – of a girls’ school, and died at a […]