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• MattW Posts: 29,761

  January 2018 edited January 2018

  Well. First.
  
  The claims in the petition about his "caustic observations about working class students at Oxford" were at best misleading, and worst a lie.
  
  This is what he was quoted as saying in the Indy:
  
  "Writing about class in a 1988 book called The Oxford Myth, Young recounted how the arrival of “stains” – as working-class students were known – had changed the university. “It was as if all the meritocratic fantasies of every 1960s educationalist had come true and all Harold Wilson’s children had been let in at the gate,” he wrote."
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/toby-young-free-school-pioneer-described-working-class-grammar-school-boys-at-oxford-as-universally-10517380.html
  
  which for the petition became:
  
  Young also once referred to state school undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge as "stains".
  https://www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-sack-toby-young-from-university-watchdog-post
  
  Young is recounting a feature of the time, and it has been turned into a personally created insult.
  
  Politics now.
  

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