Salem part 2

So now we know how Kelly will handle the difficult decisions about who will teach in our schools - she will abdicate all decision making and discretion. Any transgression, no matter how minor, no matter how long ago will mean a lifetime ban. Of course many, even most, people on the sex offenders register are not suitable to work with children (or vulnerable adults). But this decision is one rooted not in the desire to protect children, but in moral cowardice.

There is a paradox however, only future offenders are subject to an automatic lifetime ban, people who have offended up to now will still need to judged, weighed and unless the current febrile climate abates, condemned without exception.

Orwell's Big Brother may have been transmogrified into TV humiliation (the rats in room 101 seem benign in comparison) but Kafka's Castle has been relocated to Sanctuary Buildings. Now that's an ironic address if ever there was one.