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To care about how people talk is to align yourself with some pretty blimpish bedfellows, including the horrible Professor Higgins. ‘It’s “Ow!” and “Garn”, that keep her in her place – not her ragged clothes or dirty face.’

When Keir Starmer took up the theme – pledging that ‘oracy will be embedded in the curriculum’ – I was listening on Times Radio. The reaction

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