Our Minister for Education says ” To suggest that anti-semitism can ever be explained, rather than condemned, is insensitive and frankly bizarre” when he attacks an exam question which probes the existence of this scourge.

Well what can be more bizarre than that!?

So those war historians and investigators of concentration camps and the psychology of their guards and Third Reich politics were silly and misguided?

The man is a joke.

How can a moral evil or outrage be dealt with if unexamined?

Can he not see that explanation is not excusing, and is completely unalike justification?

And I understand he is not even of the Etonian cabinet club, so no excuse there then.