The schools crusade that links Michael Gove to Rupert Murdoch

On a freezing November day in 2010, the education secretary, Michael Gove, turned out in east London to inspect a desolate stretch of dockside ground near City airport, where Rupert Murdoch had offered to build an academy school.....

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But Gove returned to his pro-Murdoch theme last week, publicly attacking the Leveson inquiry, set up in the wake of News International's misdeeds, as a threat to press freedom. "Whenever anyone sets up a new newspaper – as Rupert Murdoch has with the Sun on Sunday – they should be applauded and not criticised," he said.

It was a reminder of the extraordinarily close links that still exist between publishing tycoon and Tory politician. One of Murdoch's long-term projects is what he calls a "revolutionary and profitable" move by his media companies into online education. Gove would be a key figure in any attempt to penetrate the British schools market.

The education secretary meets Murdoch frequently and is an enthusiastic backer of the ideas of Joel Klein, the head of Murdoch's new education division. Within a week of his promotion in 2010, the minister was at dinner with Murdoch, according to officially released details of meetings.

(More at link. Health warning: it all stinks to high heaven!)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/26/schools-crusade-gove-murdoch


Sometimes words fail me. Who elected this corrupt bastard Murdoch to run so much in our country? And I had always regarded Gove as simply an incompetent fool, but it looks like he may be another Lansley, trying to sell off our public services to help his cronies make a profit.