Even the local Evening Gazette did not get a picture of him with Sir Peter Vardy. Still, it seems, he thought it politic to keep news of his visit to Middlesbrough out of the papers. In the past, when questioned, the Prime Minister had tacitly supported the work of the Vardy schools, suggesting that he had no problem with the Biblical slant of their science. The King's Academy is the second school to do so. The first, Emmanuel College in Gateshead, which opened 15 years ago, has made two kinds of headlines: for its consistently excellent results and for the fact that it was the only state-funded comprehensive school in Britain that taught Creationism alongside Evolutionism. The King's Academy is the second of Sir Peter Vardy's schools in the northeast. The school was the King's Academy in Middlesbrough, and it would be easy to argue an irony in the timing of his visit. When he had finished, he went to open a new school. On the morning of 5 March this year, at Sedgefield, Tony Blair gave his most apocalyptic speech to date about the threat of global terrorism and the dangers of religious fundamentalism.
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