This was originally posted 19 August 2010 under the title ‘Genes, prep schools and Eton’. It has been re-posted ahead of the 60th anniversar...

text of a letter about the headmistress of my convent school, the Ursuline High School in Ilford, who later became head of the Ursuline orde...

Where she [Margaret Thatcher] did not think she was among friends … she scarcely made the effort to convert anyone. Most Leaders of the Op...

Extract from Five Children and It : [The Psammead to Jane] ‘Just wish, will you, that you may never be able, any of you, to tell anyone a w...

[The Department of Education and Science] was a department with an entrenched culture and a settled agenda of its own which it pursued with ...

I propose that a fund be set up in memory of the late Baroness Thatcher, provisionally entitled the Margaret Thatcher Memorial Fund for Acad...

There is a quotation ascribed in various forms to Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America (although it may in fact...

Further on the topic of the late Lady Thatcher and the former Principal of Somerville College, Dame Janet Vaughan , this is an extract from ...

I was disgusted, although of course in a familiar way, to hear recently that someone is receiving a grant (from the Perrott-Warwick Fund, ad...

There follows an extract from a review in the Daily Mail by Quentin Letts of the book The Real Iron Lady: Working With Mrs Thatcher by Gil...