What does a 2002 article on faxes and children's books have to do with the present-day UK education sector?

If you read it, you'll know.

Yeah, I tried, it started with gushing over James Dobson - the man who believes that beating children is a good thing (this is personal; my parents used his books for parenting advice) - and C.S. Lewis.

Eg, it complains about Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone as being a "deeply incoherent work", and praises Lewis. But the Narnia series is also a deeply incoherent work.

It describes the book as a narcissistic fantasy, which is a literary description and an opinion. It then spends paragraphs describing the psychiatric condition known as narcissism. But the connection is still an opinion.

The author then gives this horrid homophobic nugget:

> One of the most blatant forms of magic through ingestion is, of course, homosexuality, and through its connection with narcissism we can get some inkling of the purpose behind the major cultural offensive in favor of homosexuality. The homosexual is the consumer culture’s version of the ideal citizen because he takes all of the strains of narcissism to their logical antiessentialist conclusion.

Yeah, I stopped there.

You're not going to make it.

I'm not going to make what? Make it through a homophobic essay with poorly constructed arguments? You're right.

Excellent, really excellent read, thanks for the pointer.