My issue with grammar schools is that they do not allow people to ‘get on’. They allow parents to allow their kids to get on. That’s a fundamental difference. Why should the clever child who was just… (View Post)

Loyalty to a party isn’t the virtue you think it is. (View Post)

Apart from the people who didn't get into the grammar schools I presume (View Post)

If you got rid of private schools and grammar schools then 100% of our PMs, people in top professions and judges and lawyers would be from comprehensives. Explain that one. (View Post)

Only a small minority. My point is that HY quotes statistics without any appreciation of the other factors at play. We know that comprehensives are better in rich areas and we know that wealth player… (View Post)