Or alternatively and more sensibly bring back more grammar schools, with ballots to open new grammars not just close them. So we have genuine elite education in state schools again, not just private … (View Post)

So is the King on his father's side (View Post)

'..where most of your audience is neither religiously nutty nor tribal Tory.' In a UK where nearly 50% are voting Tory or Reform even if Burnham becomes PM trying to force out the few of us… (View Post)

Smaller private schools are the ones worst hit by it, not elite ones, some of whom will have been forced to close by this whereas before they could have just about stayed open. So the next effect wil… (View Post)

"He needed a lot of persuading to apply because he felt that as a working-class boy, going off to Cambridge wasn't for him. He didn't believe in himself, but he did it, and the rest is… (View Post)