i'm joined now by author and educator mike fairclough. ng post in east sussex last year, saying he'd been discriminated against, harassed and bullied for his unorthodox approach to education. it's great to see you, mike. >> good to see you too, neil, >> good to see you too, neil, >> this is a this is a challenge for all of us. i think, parents, teachers, society at large and i think you've got a thesis about there being a deliberate , there being a deliberate, controlled demolition of society that's been going on on account of wider behaviour and the curriculums in our schools. i wonder if you could develop that, that thesis for us. >> yeah. yeah, absolutely, so , >> yeah. yeah, absolutely, so, i've been an educator in primary schools for 30 years, and over the three decades i've seen a kind of steady decline in several things. one in the sort of quality of teachers coming into the profession. so the, the intellectual bar has been lowered considerably, and there's also been the introduction of, ideologies such as the gender ideology and, a