This government is consistent at least; it hates anyone with any degree of education or the slightest intellectual nous or ability to articulate an opinion they don't share or a state a fact that doesn't fit their narrow worldview. As Jim says it's not just teachers, but our doctors and scientists who are under attack by a group of people whose sole ideology is the market finds the solutions to everything and must be introduced anywhere. It's abandoned the basic ethics and morality established (often painfully) over the last 150 years to the faceless, unaccountable devils of countless boardrooms and the shareholders they purport to serve.

The tories and the other right-wing parties have created an atmosphere of intolerance towards teachers, doctors, academics and students that has spread into our schools. Sound familiar? In a society where the government wants to control the opposition these are the people they target, as they know people with a mind of their own will question, challenge and oppose their shallow, market-led ideologies.

This climate of fear, fermented by the degenerate grey shades of Whitehall and the political establishment is manifested in the appalling, relentless and cynical commercialisation of our higher education system and the NHS. They deny science, seek to demonise anyone who can think for themselves and who questions the politics of self.