The Trojan horse row shows the failure of Michael Gove's centralism | Simon Jenkins

Wielding the blundering cudgels of Whitehall is not the answer. These schools must be governed through local accountability

Schools in Birmingham are today subject to two separate eruptions. One concerns relations between the education secretary, Michael Gove, and the home secretary, Theresa May, over whether the former "did enough" to counter Islamist extremism the "Trojan horse" plot in the schools now considered in his charge. Here Gove might reasonably protest that his...