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)

I rather like the Fens. They feel weird and other wordly. I like that you can scramble up a drainage ditch and be the highest person for miles around. But I only pass through them once every few year… (View Post)