Then they serve up an indignant, misleading and perhaps libellous conclusion congenial to their own prejudices and those of their governmental masters. I have seen Ofsted at first hand on a number of occasions and rarely have I been impressed. They are an active part of that conspiracy which promotes school as a form of entertainment at the expense of hard, genuine learning. Out with conjugated verbs and times tables, in with “role play” and “projects”. Out, alas, with fluency in foreign tongues or the ability to add without a calculator.

When studies from respectable establishments such as Durham university point out the decline in standards, we are fed the line that once pupils were “taught to pass exams” as though that skill were somehow separable from skill in the examined subject. The other tack is calling universities “elitist” – as if they should be anything else!

In Ofsted we see an important brick in Labour’s pyramid of lies. They can’t close the grammars by ballot so they try to merge or inspect or otherwise squeeze them out of existence. Post that prize berk, Macpherson, the mere hint of “racism” (or an “inadequate response” to the mere idea of such a thing) is enough to shut an excellent school.

I sincerely hope that one day the various corruptions, gerrymanderings, misleading leaks, reannouncements, false accusations and dark hints in which the modern left specialises are brought home to their authors. These people, wherever and whoever they are, belong in gaol.