'In 1987 the majority of England cricketers were state-educated. Now most professional sportsmen are educated privately — including black children'

The progressive orthodoxy in British education has left one in five school-leavers functionally illiterate. That ethos needs to change

In six years of study I didn't learn a single thing that would be of any use to me in my ambition to become a figurative artist

‘We used to point to the fact that teachers didn’t know grammar. Now the inspectors judging the teachers don’t know it either’