There's much of fuss over new freedoms that Tony Blair wants to give schools, with some suggesting that it's a move to something akin to GM schools.

I'm dead against GM schools. I don't think the government should be genetically modifying places of education. Only the other day I saw an infant school walking along the street. "Fine," you say, "it's only an infant school". But what happens when you wake up to find that a secondary school has wandered into your back garden and a bunch of teenagers are standing in your azaleas, smoking and upsetting the cat.

There are enough problems with our schools as it is: poor buildings, dissatisfied teachers and many of them are teeming with children (it's true). Once we starting messing around with their genetics who knows where it may lead? I for one dread the day when I come across a school which glows in the dark or becomes ripe sooner.