My latest Spectator blog: the nightmare of school holidays

"The decision by the Supreme Court to find against parent Jon Platt in his battle with his local education authority is both outrageous and debatable. Mr Platt took his daughter on holiday for a week during the school term in 2015 and was arbitrarily fined by Isle of Wight council for doing so. Platt successfully fought the verdict in the high court, yet for reasons best known to themselves, the council decided to take it to a higher authority. Where next, if they had been unsuccessful, one wonders. The European Court of Human Rights? God..?"

Read my latest "pathetic, why doesn't the world revolve around me" (© a beneath-the-line commentator) Spectator blog here - if you have time!