The cane will not end indiscipline in schools

This caning issue is becoming an absolute pain in the backside. First of all, the people at the forefront of the ‘bring discipline back’ campaign are the most bad-mannered, and yet they grew up in a time when caning school children was still lawful

If caning was the answer to indiscipline, then we wouldn’t have a crop of such ill-behaved leaders running around talking out of both ends of their mouths as if their teachers didn’t beat the fear of God into them when they were younger.

If all kids needed was good hiding, then surely our current company of political headteachers would have a better...