I looked at a copy of the Mail on Sunday yesterday and within the first six or seven pages, just about one story on a page referred to the 'Old Etonian'.
The editorial agenda on the Mail is very very odd these days, it seems unfocused as to whether it goes on about 'plebs' or has some form of inverted snobbery regarding those it sees 'higher up the scale' of social life.
I always assumed that Paul Dacre himself was the epitome of someone who came from a privileged background and indeed he did go to a private school, but on a state sponsorship. Could this be why he has such a view on the privately educated? Was he 'bullied' there due to being a state sponsored pupil as opposed to one where fees were no object?

I find this obsession with Eton etc and the education of some MPs weird as well and more so because it comes from the DM.

You could be right.

I heard a very private tale the other day about how Lord Lucan had been buggering boys at Eton but as I think he's still alive somewhere I shan't repeat it.

Hedda wrote:
I find this obsession with Eton etc and the education of some MPs weird as well and more so because it comes from the DM.

You could be right.

I heard a very private tale the other day about how Lord Lucan had been buggering boys at Eton but as I think he's still alive somewhere I shan't repeat it.

Unfortunately I was saddled with a Comprehensive education when even my primary school said I should be going to a Grammar School, albeit 20 miles down the road as opposed to 3 for the Comp. One of the other reasons I hate my father, who said he didn't want 'his lad in a Grammar.'

I woz at the same inner-London Grammar, all-boys-together, school a few years before the Spandau/Spandex Ballet nice Kemp boys, and one teacher was known as 'twisted' by us streetwize lads.

Tho he was always very nice to me.

As for TRUE elite-Anglo edjuckashun, how about the REAL inside-story "Tom's Brown School Days" ?

LoL.