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The destructive legacy of the grammar school-wreckers lingers on today

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'The fault with the old system was not the grammar schools but the secondary moderns, where those who failed their 11-plus ended up and, understandably, felt abandoned, though it was possible to move to a selective school later' I Writes Philip Johnston

I was once tasked as political correspondent with ringing Enoch Powell to obtain a comment on the death of Harold Wilson, the former prime minister. “De mortuis nil nisi bonum,” was his classicist’s reply. I do not intend to speak ill of Shirley Williams, whose career I observed with somewhat grudging admiration as I did not entirely agree with her political views.

 

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