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The American School in London is Britain's most expensive day school, charging an astonishing £32,650-a-year in fees to the capital's loftiest bankers, corporate lawyers and celebrities.  At pick-up, parents rub shoulders with footballers Thierry Henry and Mikel Arteta, Hollywood siren Salma Hayek and the occasional plutocrat and oligarch. To a certain breed of turbo-powered Londoner, having children at 'ASL' is a badge of wealth and privilege, denoting membership of an exclusive club where your child becomes what the prospectus dubs a 'lifelong learner and courageous global citizen', hopef...

A crisis management firm looks to have forced Eton's controversial head 'Trendy Hendy' into wearing a tie and dumping ultra-liberal books from his shelves. The exclusive school has been forced into the limelight recently, following the sacking of  English teacher Will Knowland in November over a YouTube lecture criticising feminist thinking and the conviction of ex-teacher Matthew Mowbray for sexually assaulting three boys. Today the Mail On Sunday has revealed how £42,500-a-year Eton has drafted in City PR firm Brunswick to help the school, and headmaster Simon Henderson, rebuild their ...

Gaudeamus Igitur! One by one they crumble: Rugby and Repton, Charterhouse and Wellington, monkish Ampleforth and Downside have abandoned the all-boys tradition to welcome their sisters. Now

An Eton teacher who was sacked over a lecture attacking 'radical feminist orthodoxy' has said 'controversy is essential' in education and claimed he's received support from Tory ministers.   Will Knowland was removed from his role at the prestigious Berkshire school after posting a lecture on Youtube challenging so-called modern feminist views about 'toxic masculinity'. The lecture, in which the English teacher quoted an article saying women wanted to be 'overwhelmed by the sheer power of masculinity', was prepared for older pupils at the £42,500-a-year school. But he was sacked after he r...

Young Free Speech Advocates in UK Launch New Movement to Re-Imagine the ‘Public Square’ A new free speech movement set on “reimagining the public square” was launched in the UK on Sunday following recent concerns over freedom of expression in the country. Launched by a group of university students and recent graduates, the Free Speech Champions initiative “aims to inspire the next generation about the importance of free speech,” the group’s founding director, Inaya Folarin Iman wrote on Twitter. I’m excited to announce the launch of Free Speech Champions @speechchampions, an i...