There's a not-unreasonable argument that grammar schools should take the top 80%. It strikes me that the needs of the middle 60% are more similar to the needs of the top 20% than to the needs of… (View Post)

Private schools very definitely do not equal boarding schools, and nor, by and large, are they attended by children of the elite. And round here they are absolutely full of Asians (of all sorts), to … (View Post)

Also on the list of What the Post Office Shall Be: It shall not be a depressing, dimly lit shambles. (View Post)

At the private school I went to, class sizes were 30 in year 7, down to 24-ish at GCSE, down to 7-15 for A Level. Not much different from a state school. (But then, this was the era when private scho… (View Post)

I don't think SKS and Reeves are truly incompetent or wicked. But the general pattern is that every time the Tories have been wrong, Labour have been calling for them to be more wrong (lockdown … (View Post)