TEACHING

assistant Sion Rickard told the Labour conference there would be no Tories if ‘we brought up our kids properly’. He reminds me of the young woman who once screamed at me, in front of my children, that ‘people like you shouldn’t be allowed to have kids’. She, too, was a teacher. At the time the encounter left me shaking; but looking back, it was a valuable lesson. It showed my children the true face of prejudice: ignorant, hate-fuelled bigotry in the guise of virtue-signalling political correctness.