Jamie's Dream School, a youth club with david starkey instead of a pool table.

And don't forget, too, that this is basically just unwitting (I hope) Tory propaganda: set up your own school with zero expertise, exercise crushingly ignorant "parent-power," don't take the time to consult any real school teachers (ugly depressing lot anyway), represent education as some sort of empowering celeb-motivation system (rather than something quite unglamorously hard), and pack it all with out-of-date imagery involving chalk and inkwells and desks with lids. Meanwhile, pay to send your own kids somewhere else, of course.

The worst thing about this latest installment of Jamie-bollocks is that you just know it comes about because he's going through the classically deluded celeb cycle of having to moralise about and transform whatever utterly generic stage of life he's currently going through. (Like that thing where they have a kid and then immediately publish a crap children's book.) That was all very nice when Jamie had learned how to cook so wanted to show everyone else how to, but now - Jesus. I'm trying to imagine future projects: Jamie's Midlife Crisis, Jamie's Dream Care Home, Jamie's How to Grieve, etc. etc

Alan Johnson on the other hand, a politician that held down a real job as a postie . Then elevated, to the Communicaction Workers Union .The union of Royal Mail. Then promoted to Government where he presided over the destruction of the Royal Mail .

It is quite possible, and most desirous, to teach about religions without any of them being taught as ’truth’. 2+2=4... that is truth. Humans evolved from lower life forms… that is truth. The speed of light is 300 million kilometres per second… that is truth.

Christ restored life to Lazarus… that is an unsubstantiated myth.

The way I phrase it in my book, available at fine bookstores everywhere, is that I propose a pact with the faith, the faithful, I'll take it again, quoting from the great Thomas Jefferson, I don't mind if my neighbour believes in 15 gods or in none, he neither by that breaks my leg or picks my pocket. I would echo that, and say that as long as you don't want your religion taught to my children in school, given a government subsidy, imposed on me by violence, any of these things, you are fine by me.

I would prefer not even to know what it is that you do in that church of yours, in fact, if you force it on my attention, I will consider it a breach of that pact. Have your own bloody Christmas, and so on. Do your slaughtering, if possible, in an abattoir. And don't mutilate the genitals of your children! Because then I'm afraid it gets within the ambit of law.

“It seems to me that what we are doing is producing a tyrannous new morality that is every bit as oppressive as the old”. David Starkey, bbc QT

Except that the rage against them didn’t come from the Labour ‘right’, a political force which ceased to exist about 25 years ago when the SDP defected and mandatory reselection was introduced. (There is now one actual ‘right-wing’ Labour MP, John Spellar, who ought by rights to be in a museum). It came from the practical power-seeking Labour left establishment which seized control of the party after the defeat of the Trotskyists and Bennites by the Eurocommunist left (ludicrously characterised by Fleet Street as ‘the right’) in the early 1980s. As a conservative, I have little passion to spare on Mr Galloway or Mr Crow, whom I know to be politically negligible forces. The Labour elite fear and loathe them because they might remind poorly-informed people of what sort of movement Labour actually is, in ways they can easily understand. Most conservatives rather like Tony Benn. Most Labour establishment figures despise him with a furious resentful passion, blaming him for extending their years out of office. So not disingenuous at all, just based on a clearer and better informed understanding of politics and the Labour Party than Mr Finn (or I suspect many BBC persons) possesses.