A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the scandal of some of our best universities making lower offers to high-paying international students than to our own young people. This is clearly a subject that vexes many readers. I guess it’s proof, were any needed, that we Britons are increasingly a low priority for many of our institutions, from the Church of England offering a sacrament for failed asylum seekers who are then at liberty to seemingly throw drain cleaner at women and children, to the Hom
Is Marlborough’s loss about to be Oundle’s gain? The latest reports on the Prince and Princess of Wales’s search for the best school for their eldest son, Prince George, suggest that it’s no longer Kate’s alma mater in prime position, but a progressive co-educational school in Northamptonshire.