Bridget Phillipson has been accused of allowing the Education Blob to run riot with her Schools Bill, slipping in horrors that the Tories rejected and moving the system towards the Nazi-style one that MPs rejected in 1944.

The Blob has sunk to new depths in its quest to destroy educational freedom. No wonder, says Randall Hardy. It's only the right to withdraw children from the state system that restrains its worst indoctrinating tendencies.