So far, I don't think any private schools have closed solely because of VAT. It gave the final push to some already on very shaky ground - Malvern St James, for example, seems to have suffered f… (View Post)

Raw numbers are meaningless anyway. The relevant metric is the teacher/pupil ratio, and that might be being maintained given the dwindling numbers. However, she’s hardly putting anything into teacher… (View Post)

That’s not clear. Very much a Grey area. (View Post)

He would also have had Austen Chamberlain as FS and Neville Chamberlain as CotE had Neville not requested to go to Health instead. (View Post)

The story is told of a whisky baron who gave £50,000 to the Conservatives to buy an earldom (pre-WW1). Having chosen his title, he signed the cheque with his title and post-dated it Jan 1st next year… (View Post)