This article presents the author's response to R.J. Campbell's critique of the "Cambridge Primary Review," which was published in the autumn of 2009. The author argues that Campbell's description of the "Review's" central proposals on curriculum and pedagogy as "backward-looking and inadequately theorised" is so misjudged as to call for a response. He writes as one of the "Review's" co-authors, although in truth he had only a relatively small part to play in just one of the "Review's"" 24 chapters.