The lessons of Batley Grammar

In the face of authoritarianism, we need to hold fast to our liberal values.

Sometimes children are not to be trusted. In Stalin’s Russia, they were known to inform on their parents, a betrayal that would sometimes result in death by firing squad. During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, innocent mothers and fathers were executed after their children had overheard them criticising Chairman Mao. In the 1980s, Nicolae Ceausescu bla…