This bid to force all schools into line will end in failure | Simon Jenkins

The craving for uniformity in public services has become a frenzy, but Michael Gove cannot run every classroom

Another day, another league table. Today's report on local education authorities in England is clearly designed to show that local democracy cannot be trusted to deliver an equal standard of schools nationwide. Therefore even more power should be given to an all-seeing, all-caring central government under the ever-benign education secretary, Michael Gove. He is to set up a new re...