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VAT on fees? Our greedy private schools have it coming
The standard conservative response to Jeremy Corbyn’s proposal to impose VAT on private schools would be to attack it as…
Is Michael Gove angling for a cabinet return?
I never expected to be writing the following, since Michael Gove is, to me, one of the few heroic figures…
Theresa May should ignore the privately-educated elite and press on with her grammar school plans
It has become customary in the great grammar school debate to declare where you went to school. I attended the…
Theresa May’s grammar school plans provoke a mixed reaction
Theresa May has told Tory MPs she won’t ‘turn back the clock’ on grammar schools. But she also didn’t rule…
The Spectator podcast: David Cameron’s purge of the posh
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The Spectator podcast: David Cameron’s purge of the posh
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It’s nonsense to say private schools put pupils ahead by two years
A study out today suggests that sending your kids to private schools puts them two years’ ahead of their state…
If the Guardian dislikes privately educated Oxbridge types, why does it hire so many?
The Guardian ran an article today about research by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission. The commission claims around 70…
Blunt is right. Being posh in the arts is career suicide
Yesterday saw Labour’s shadow minister for the arts, Chris Bryant MP, amusingly and justly savaged by the pop star James Blunt…
Tristram Hunt is right: private schools do need to do more for the state sector
Please can we give Tristram Hunt a break? I’m right behind him when it comes to getting private schools to…
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