Was it really necessary to have four pages on tensions over the imperial family's succession if they came at the expense of examining the country's archaic schools or its deeply flawed system of public justice?
Mostly, that means educating people about positive reinforcement training — humane training that relies on rewards and establishing trust, instead of the more archaic "old school" tactics that rely on punishments like electric or choke collars.
This is exactly the kind of archaic, public-school insult that would flash into a copper's mind.
This seemingly archaic circular urging schools to impose collective worship of a "broadly Christian" character on their (usually) multicultural students was issued as recently as 1994.
But to Ms. Hunt's Facebook supporters, it seemed like a tale of high school love, archaic laws and antigay prejudice.
This degree of intervention is all the more scandalous because the courts have weirdly decided to ignore another set of "inputs"—the archaic work practices of school teachers and janitors.
When I first began to sing Dancing Queen Abba (1976) I went to an archaic, very strict boarding school called Horace Hill, near Newbury, where classical music was played through loudspeakers every night.
In fact their educational backgrounds (both went to Oxford too) are even closer than this suggests: Mr Blair's housemaster at Fettes, Eric Anderson, went on to be Mr Cameron's headmaster at Eton.An adolescence spent at an expensive school with archaic rules and an absurd dress code was until recently thought to be a handicap for a politician.
This is a critical development in an industry where many innovative apps have been unable to displace archaic, inferior technologies in schools because of restricted funding and a general unwillingness of schools to disrupt the status quo.
Time was when Labour advocated removing the anomalous and archaic tax status of private schools, more suited to the days of Trollope's Barchester than to the 21st century, but we hear nothing of that now.
