The very poshest are often closer to the most roguish of the working classes in their disregard for the rules and membership of gangs than they are to the rule abiding middle classes (View Post)

We had a comprehensive school educated PM just 2 years ago, that great titan of Premiers, Liz Truss! (View Post)

No, Winchester is for Maths and stats nerds like Geoffrey Howe and Rishi, Westminster is for arty types like Giles Coren and slick metropolitans like Nick Clegg and rebels like Tony Benn (View Post)

Maybe, maybe not. If we had had PR in 1951 the Liberals would have held the balance of power and may well have backed Churchill, indeed Churchill offered Clement Davies their leader the post of Educa… (View Post)

Winchester generally has the reputation as the most intellectual and least aggressive and macho of the top rank public schools, comprising Harrow, Eton and Westminster as well. So he sounds pretty st… (View Post)