![]() ![]() Think of the Prime Minister’sand Foreign Secretary’s decisions to go on holiday just as Afghanistan was about to be catapulted back to the Middle Ages. ![]() It is also a system which instils in these people dissembling, hypocrisy, snobbery, moral blindness and indifference to anyone else’ssuffering. ![]() It is a passionate, well-argued case against a system by which a pool of less than 5 per cent of the population have a disproportionate influence over every significant aspect of our lives. But that would be a pity, because you would be missing out on one of the finest polemics I have ever come across. So you may either have given up on this review already or will have no intention of reading the book. I suspect that The Spectator has quite a few readers who went to boarding school, and who even think the government is doing a good job. He pays special attention to the Prime Minister and his predecessor but one. The first is how being sent away at the age of eight damaged and twisted him and just about everyone else who experienced the same the second is about what these damaged children as adults have done to the country. Richard Beard has written what I hope for his sake is a cathartic denunciation of the private boarding school system, and his rage is on two fronts. ![]() I can’t recall reading an angrier book than this. ![]()
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