The latest policy wheeze - help renters by pushing landlords out of business - hasn't come from the left, though. It is Tory policy. (View Post)

How does society benefit from its top spots being monopolised by an oligarchic elite of entitled snobs whose intrinsic mediocrity has been disguised by a flattering veneer of spoon-fed learning and a… (View Post)

Even less reason to give them a tax break. Why should we be subsidising the education of a bunch of junior oligarchs? (View Post)

Imagine where we would be as a country if some of the defenders of private schools instead ploughed a fraction of the energy they put into defending the interests of a privileged few into championing… (View Post)

People who have studied this in detail have found that spending on private education is fairly price-inelastic, as is evident in the fact that fees have gone up significantly in recent years while th… (View Post)