One problem with grammar schools, though, is that people always assume that their children would, of course, attend one because one's own child is, almost by definition, far brighter than the average child.

Obviously, in the nature of things, a wholesale reintroduction of grammar schools would leave a fair number of very disgruntled parents (whose votes are, after all, solicited by all the main parties) wondering why their children were, by some terrible mistake, going to the local secondary modern. This, as I understand it, was why both main parties were originally pretty much in favour of comprehensives.

I say this not to attack the idea of grammar schools but to draw attention to what seems to me a clear political problem inherent in their reintroduction.

Do you want to make that a class action ?

Oh wonderful. Or as the Russians say: Zdorovo!

Admitting the bleedin' obvious finally. My goodness these people have a lot to answer for.