It’s not exactly the Cabinet War Rooms in Whitehall, but another Battle of Britain is being waged almost unaided from a shabby Sixties-era former office block in the shadow of Wembley Stadium.
Unaided, because this battle isn’t being fought by the Department for Education after a teacher in Batley has been in hiding — and will probably never return home — after showing a class a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed. Nor by the Home Office, after the police registered a “hate incident” after four pupils scuffed a copy of the Koran at Kettlethorpe high school. There are other fronts, of course, but for reasons of space and in the interests of general sanity, let’s stick to education here.
