ABSTRACT
Well, we will know by now how many schools and children obeyed Bob Geldof’s instruction to bunk off and head for Edinburgh, in a rather unsettling echo of the Children’s Crusade.
‘I want,’ he cried, waving his invisible banneret and sword, ‘every school to decamp on July 5. I want the teachers to lead the kids to Edinburgh. I want to see all their buses, their blazers, their flags up there demanding that they tear down trade barriers to African farmers and write off the continent’s international debt.’
