Don't knock The Dorries Effect. Just one glimpse at her 'blog' and, after clearing up the vomit, its beret on, affix the crossed munition belts, leap(?) on the horse and away!

I have a mental image of that, Ernesto, that just won't go away... (a bit like that poor bloody horse!)

As the father of a dyslexic son educated by a tory county council that also didn't recognise the existence of dyslexia (the school had to refer to it as "the D word") I can only assume that Stringer must be a fan of King Cnut. Did I spell that correctly?

Nice to know that good sense still exists somewhere inside the Labour party. Dyslexia does not exist (except possibly in a tiny minority) but UTS is everywhere.

UTS? Useless Teacher Syndrome!

Interesting theory Duffy. Newmania just puts it down to thick kids... although I recall some study by a London School of Business, or some such title, which concluded that about a third of all entrepreneurs and small business owners were dyslexia sufferers. I don't know whether that makes them thick... or just unlucky with their choice of schools.

I'm told the Scottish Freemasons have also taken a keen interest in it and funded research to assist with the identification of dyslexia, but then again, the old trouser rollers have some very medieval beliefs so you may well be right... they just went to crappy public schools.