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‘Worse than Goering’ – corrected
Former Times Educational Supplement editor and Gove fan Gerard Kelly has sparked outrage on Twitter with an astonishing attack on a trade union activist. LOUISE RAW reports

Mr Gerard Kelly: A correction

In the Morning Star dated July 22 we published the below article which criticised Mr Gerard Kelly (a friend of former education secretary Michael Gove) for posting a tweet which compared a Jewish school teacher (an NUT Officer) to Goering —  a notorious anti-semite, who played a central role in initiating and presiding over the cold-blooded murder of millions of Jews.

In the article the author, Dr Louise Raw, said — in Mr Kelly’s favour — that on reflection he must have thought the comparison was inappropriate (to say the least) and that he had deleted it.


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