We live in a free country — of course teachers should be allowed to show contentious cartoons
The first thing I did when I noticed the protests erupting outside Batley Grammar School was to check the calendar. It told me that it was 2021 — more than 500 years after the scientific revolution and 400 since the Enlightenment. And yet here was a teacher going into hiding for sharing a religious cartoon with his class, protesters demanding that he be sacked on the basis of theology. I couldn’t help thinking of Galileo in front of the Inquisition.
