On a different topic..

..I have spent some of the last few days at Olympia in London.
There have been two shows running. One the Daily Telegraph Adventure show. The other something called BETT, which is all about "Educational Technology".
Now call me cynical, but I couldn't help but think the latter might actually be mostly about various educational establishements and departments across the UK spending your and my money. After all, GB has promised even more mega billions ( obviously to no effect) to " Our schools and universities".
The adventure show was tucked into Olympia II. For those of you who don't know, this has three levels, and is about the size of a medium Tesco. And they had closed one level, so only two-thirds of a medium Tesco. All the exhibitors paid their way, as did all the people who visited the show, about 26,000 of them at £10 a time. Of their own after tax money.
BETT on the other hand was in the main show area, plus all the remaining ancillary space. Probably double a mega mega Tesco in size. Probably as many as 150,000 visited the show, not one of whom, I'm sure, actually paid the entry themselves. And for sure they would have been in hotels and restaurants spending our money. And buying lots of gizmos to improve " edukashun" when what is needed is good teachers, not teaching aids, however whizzy. What makes a good teacher? Someone who imparts a love of learning. Do that and all else follows.
My point, of course, is that there is not the slightest balance in our present society. Bliar and his minions, and all their council and neo-government appendages, have been given the key to the money box, and have comprehensively emptied it of OUR money. If you ain't in their ( extremely large) clique, you are well and truly screwed. They had the benefit, they deny it to others.
Don't believe a word of the hype - there ain't no magic bullet.