All Must Have Prizes By Melanie Phillips Little, Brown pounds 17.50

From: The Independent - London | Date: September 13, 1996| Author: TED WRAGG | Copyright information

Take a few prejudices. Lace them liberally with anecdotes. Add some quotes from like-minded mates. Shake them vigorously. Filter out as many facts as possible. Pour into stiff covers and serve chilled. Have you done all that? Then congratulations. You have just written Melanie Phillips's book.

The pity of it is that the author takes important topics, like education and family life, and then gives a distorted analysis of what she chronicles as the immense inadequacy of teachers and pare...

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