Geoff Barton, headteacher of King Edward VI School in Suffolk, writes:

I drove in to work this morning listening to Radio 4’s Today programme. I wasn’t quick enough to avoid its regular Thought for the Day segment. But in a way I’m glad. Because straight afterwards education secretary Nicky Morgan came on, trying to defend the proposed expansion of the government’s “free schools” initiative.

From Thought for the Day to Platitude of the Day. Truly, the education secretary left no cliché unturned.