About 15 years ago I was at a do for a children’s literacy charity and the guest speaker was Jamie Oliver. He got up and spoke easily, wittily and movingly – without notes – about his experiences as a child at school with undiagnosed dyslexia that meant he only read a book for the first time at the age of 33. Now he is channelling those experiences, with what he has learned over the last two decades as a campaigner (most famously about school dinners, when he brought to public attention the pennies’ worth of cheap slop we were pushing down our children’s gullets five times a week), into the cause of educational reform.
Jamie’s Dyslexia Revolution marks the culmination of six months’ work by Oliver and his team, including his right-hand woman for activism, Alison Corfield, and the beginning of a media blitz designed to force the government’s hand.
