That’s fair enough. One thing that I would pick up on is that the endowments weren’t some lovely fluffy modern concept of lifting the poor. Winchester, and then Eton for similar reasons, we’re set up… (View Post)

Why do you think they should disendowpublic schools. The endowments were the wishes of people in their wills or lifetime. You might not like public schools but if people chose to leave land or money … (View Post)

Yes, it’s a nonsense, the “rich” spend their money on expensive cars contributing lots of lovely VAT and creating jobs. They eat in restaurants and spend more money in expensive shops adding VAT and … (View Post)

But you can add more economic activity without increasing the cost to the economy by attracting the wealthy to the UK. So yes, on a technical basis they spend a smaller percentage of their wealth it’… (View Post)

Am I correct that all the Dutch medals came from speed skating? They win a lot in the cycling at the Summer Olympics so maybe, like we did with cycling, setting up a speed skating programme will be a… (View Post)