The Belfast Telegraph’s new, heavily advertised and trailed ‘compact’ edition hit the streets on Wednesday, complete with a supplement on parenting.
While the Education Minister prefers to use the machinery of the Executive Information Service (that is the huddled masses of press officers) to help outlaw academic selection, those that back testing at 11 were taking advertisements in the Belfast Tele supplement.
PR officers versus ad men…in a fair fight one might back the public relations team in the education death match. But wait, to make sure it is a fair fight there can’t be a fight unless there is equal opportunity for everyone to take part, and there can’t be a fight as that would be like a sort of test, and we can’t be having those about us. And anyway, that whole competitive sports thing might disadvantage the obese ones that the Department of Health says we must help slim down through exercise.
As with quantum physics, if you understand Northern Ireland politics you haven’t been paying attention!
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