Diane Abbott says her decision to send her son to a fee-paying school is 'indefensible'. Well no, it isn't at all. Many parents will sympathise with her dilemma and applaud her for doing the best for her child. What is indefensible hypocrisy is her continuing attack upon fee-paying schools, her prosecution of the infantile class war which has blighted the life chances of countless children, and her attachment to the state monopoly on education which deprives poor parents from exercising the choice available to herself.

What is also remarkable is that having got herself into this hole, she just hasn't stopped digging.

Posted by melanie at November 2, 2003