ABSTRACT
A Hampshire headmaster, I hear to my joy, is planning to change school uniform because part of it is red. He has heard that red encourages aggression, tension and behaviour problems, and wants a colour more conducive to peaceful concentration. Pastel blue, perhaps, or Hare Krishna yellow. Or perhaps good old bottlegreen or battleship grey, as worn with loathing by generations of grammar-school swots. At the moment, he says darkly, the children en masse are ‘a sea of red’ which his consultant psychologist says may accentuate aggression.
