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you've driven to a very specific corner. It’s one particularly egregious example but there are plenty more: education is another, why are state comps good enou
by gaius 9y ago
you've driven to a very specific corner.
It’s one particularly egregious example but there are plenty more: education is another, why are state comps good enough for The Workers while Graun types go private? Or housing.
- ggm 9y agoOwen Jones, as a specific example did not attend private school. Polly Toynbee attended a state school before university. Martin Kettle went to Leeds modern. This idea that the 'guardian' is packed with public school toffs is reed-thin. I didn't bother looking harder because I'm pretty confident its not true. Its just what you want to be true. Oxford is biassed to private school entry because its competitive. But it is emphatically not closed to state school pupils, and never has been. But in any case, whilst a lot of guardian journalists and columnists went there, I doubt all did by any stretch.