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SIR – Matt Hancock, the NHS and the Prime Minister have all been blamed by Dominic Cummings for the appalling care-home Covid deaths at the start of the pandemic, but I feel none of these are the real culprits.
Private school students get into Oxbridge because they’re just smarter than state school students, a Sussex professor has claimed. In a piece for ConservativeHome arguing that British society is already meritocratic, emeritus professor Peter Saunders writes: “The reason privately-educated kids get into Oxbridge in disproportionate numbers is that they are, on average, brighter.” He adds: “This shouldn’t really surprise anybody (after all, these kids generally have very successful parents). Yet this is a truth which seemingly must never be acknowledged.” A 2015 study found that stu...
As part of their efforts, the company refurbished a forklift truck in the colours of the helicopter. The forklift is now at Gym Professor, who bought the truck, with some of the proceeds also going towards the fundraiser. To boost the total, they also ran a charity raffle where entries cost £5 to be donated to the charity and entrants were entered in with a chance to win a daring aeroplane wing walk, which was won by Peter Saunders from TBT Marketing in Frome. Organiser Lee Hawkins says, “We’re pleased with the response. It’s one of those charities that people are happy to dona...
SIR – The SNP MSP Emma Harper has suggested that a hard border between Scotland and England would create jobs (report, May 2).
Agatha Christie’s snowbound whodunnit is the world’s longest-running play. Now it’s leading the big reopening – with a double cast and no kissing