Wanna be a Hero

The BBC's "what the papers say" section carries the Daily Mail's striking headline, "Let our teachers be Heroes". Thanks to several people, including Twitter's own Steve Peers, for pointing out that the cuddly image on the Mail front page has been cropped a bit from the original image, removing the black children. Nice work, Daily Mail!

Qwhite the photo cropping on that Daily Mail front page pic.twitter.com/wzJ2boe9Sh

— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) May 15, 2020

But leaving aside that - no doubt unintended and awkward - bit of photoshopping. The headline is inspired. "Let our teachers be heroes". It's good to aspire to be a hero. Like Achilles, Beowulf, Capt Scott, Joan of Arc, William Wallace for the Scots, or Llywelyn ap Gruffydd for the Welsh. Or Admiral  Nelson or maybe those brave British soldiers at the Somme who...

Sorry. Young Keith just popped over to suggest maybe the Daily Mail was thinking of heroes with a better survival rate. In which case, I suggest the combined editorial teams of the Daily Mail and the Telegraph. All utter front-room  heroes as they sit on the couch in their onesies, knocking up inspirational columns while moaning that Lorraine Kelly is a bit tough to be interviewing Tory ministers. They're much more the sorts of heroes we want.

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