I'd suggest that one of the reasons that Edwards is so highly regarded as a front man is that, although he's been around a long time, nobody actually knows what his personal politics are - … (View Post)

I think the point here is that the schools you refer to can't be 'comprehensives' in the proper meaning of the word if they exclude the 26% that go to grammar school. I'm not hung… (View Post)

As I've argued before, if private schools are charged VAT (as they should be), they don't necessarily have to add that on to school fees. They could, instead, make efficiency savings and cu… (View Post)

Nobody in my immediate, or extended, family was privately educated - not now, nor in the past. We have all been pretty successful in life, in a variety of different ways. We were all comprehensively … (View Post)

On private schools, I note their defenders are keen to point out how much fees have increased over the last 20/30 years. It is worth noting, however, that the salaries of the top 10% of earners, thos… (View Post)