Katharine Birbalsingh - the Guardian Knot...

Ms Birbalsingh's interview with The Guardian, here, ties that worthy journal in a knot. On the one hand, she is the classic Black victim of a bullying White headteacher. On the other, the truth she told at the Conservative conference, and keeps on telling, is an outright and very effective attack on the educational politics of the previous government, on curriculum, on behaviour, and even on their sacred cow of "child protection", in this case the perfectly legitimate use of photographs.  An interesting question is on the impact on her friends. Ms Birbalsingh says she's kept her Black friends and her teaching friends, but lost a few White liberals. Guardian readers, no doubt.