Patriotism and posh boys: The books exposing the dark truth of UK private schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : His book argues for the "slow and peaceful euthanasia" of private schools, to be replaced by a more level playing field, but he concedes this is unlikely to happen any time soon, irrespective of which party is in power.
50% : Perhaps it's like Las Vegas: what happens in private school tends to stay there?
49% : Early on in Sad Little Men, Richard Beard's book on private school education, he writes: "This is a memoir about white middle-class public schoolboys.
48% : "Plenty of Labour politicians attended private school," he says, among them Tony Blair and even "people's champion" Jeremy Corbyn.
47% : "At private school," Beard explains, "you are taught not to snitch, and my book is 250 pages of snitching."
46% : Beard, who is 54 and has been writing books for three decades, chose now to expound upon this subject because he believes it to have a timely societal resonance: in the already bitter legacy of Brexit, for example, and in the governance of people who might not seem entirely up to the job.

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