David Starkey

Floating the idea that every kid in Brixton can become a whizkid at information technology is dishonest.

Why would you want to drape yourself in the trappings of marriage?

We are dangerously devaluing knowledge and learning by no longer having a requirement to remember anything at all.

The food of my childhood was revolting because I was a child of rationing. However, I still managed to be a very plump child and, indeed, as a teenager, positively fat. In my early twenties I lost three stone in one summer using the only diet that works: the pure protein diet. I kept to it until I was about 50.

The use of computers and other mobile devices has to be so carefully controlled. As we discovered with 'Dream School' rather awkwardly, it can become a source of total disruption that destroys the co-operative learning experience.