Ruth Kelly

Frontpage header of the Guardian, Polly Toynbee: "The hounding of Ruth Kelly sickens me". I haven't read the article inside yet but I think Polly Toynbee is confusing categories here. There is an exhaustive and very necessary debate to be had about paedophilia, sex offenders, schools, power, aberrant behaviour, morality, anthropology and other related things. Peter Preston added to that debate , though after an energetic debate with J over breakfast I'm not sure he was right in his conclusions. But Ruth Kelly? This woman is a signed up Blairist, whether by inclination or coercion doesn't matter. She is arguing in favour of the education white paper. She is arguing for our schools to be handed over, while we still pay for them, to ideologues, bigots, and possibly worse. She is also a supporter if not a member of Opus Dei (I'm not sure women can be full members - as far as I can make out they can only be used for cooking and cleaning). Ruth Kelly seems to be in every way the perfect model for a Blairist post-democracy clone. Hounding? Extirpation of everything she publicly stands for, though of course not the human being herself, would be a good start.