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I agree to a point - but this wasn't a junior government minister "liking" a tweet. It was a coherently-written tweet in suggesting schools take part in this from the official DfE account. Whilst it has no formal constitutional status, that to me is a de-factor policy statement from government.

I fully agree that if this government tried to sneak in fascism through the back door they'd do an incomplete and ineffective job of it! :)

Agreed it's not formal DfE policy that can be enforced. It's also completely false to disassociate it with government almost entirely. Don't do Twitter a disservice - it's quite clearly becoming the main mouthpiece for political policy and direction across the spectrum and in fact worldwide. If...

But the Department for Education tweeted yesterday asking schools to get involved. That is quite literally from the mouth of the government, at the very highest level when it comes to education. Scan back through the thread - any outrage? I think everyone is laughing at it.