#Eton

My father, a fine teacher, died yesterday. I shall be keeping my head down for a while.https://mol.im/a/8247533 Thanks @NickCohen4 for passing on this very authentic tribute https://www.facebook.com/boris.starling/posts/10158389386618054.

thread 1/354 let me tell you about cleaners. My mother was a cleaner, as was my mother's mother, and her mother before her. 354. anyway it was a full scholarship

Hasan Patel 🌹

Since I’m trending on Twitter, I feel I need to reply. My experiences are valid. Getting a scholarship *off my own merit* to Eton does not invalidate my material disadvantage,

Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🇳🇱 🥪

You go to Eton. ‘You boys are the best of the best’. You study latin & greek. You go to Oxford & do PPE or history. And then what? You

So when we go on Holiday in America.. we r lucky every time?Kmt I know our Accent must save us sum how.. sometimes.. Or being from another country a police

Simon Forder 🏰😸🐲

There are some things which should not be run as profit-making businesses. Anything which is a vital part of the country's infrastructure. They do need to be efficient. But they

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I've met enough posh people - all perfectly nice - to know their understanding of what constitutes ordinary life is hopelessly & irredeemably skewed; that, yes, they think it a

It seems like cognitive dissonance to want to lead a country, yet to have such disdain for ordinary people. But when you understand the backgrounds of these leaders, you understand

I know we're not really talking Brexit economic impact but consider this - 70-80% of all trade takes place within supply chains global or regional. If the UK drops out

It costs more per year to keep someone aged 15-17 in a young offenders' institution than it would to send them to Eton. After a decade of austerity, the literal

Apparently, Labour are going to 'look again at their policies', in order to try & fix their problems ... They. Just. Don't. Get. It.It's not about policy, it's about the

Hackney marsh (337 acres where Lammas rights were still exercised, was excluded from the M.B.W.'s scheme in 1872. The possibility that the owners might unite to convert it into building

Simon Wardley ❤️🇺🇦

This is why China has us nailed. In 2021 (the 100th Anniversay of the CCP) they are gearing up to change the narrative from removing poverty (i.e. done) to tackling

Cirian75 #YNWA 62.5% 🇬🇧 25% 🇳🇱 12.5% 🇦🇺

1/5 The Tories have accused Labour and well know EU figures of being "the elite"Lets do some comparisons 2/5Son of a former World bank banker, MEP and UN ambassador @BorisJohnson's

Prof. Christina Pagel

A thread on my thoughts about the A-Level fiasco for what it's worth 1/9 Any standardisation to past school results will disadvantage students who are getting much higher grades than

since yesterday was mary shelley's birthday, as promised, here is a thread of my favorite facts and anecdotes about her weird, chaotic, and often despicable husband, percy bysshe shelley shelley