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It must be so annoying to the Establishment that the boarding and Wounded Leaders issue just won’t go away. Today’s Observer has another long piece by Alex Renton, interviewing Sally Fraser, who is married to an ex-boarder, and who heads up the Boarding School Action website, but also uncomfortably getting inside the family life  of…
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A mad psychotherapist has allegedly penetrated the hallowed halls of the Palace of Westminster and revealed that the House of Commons is in fact a mock-Gothic Victorian public school chapel pretending to be the seat of government.  Have boarding schools crippled the Cabinet? Ask Politics UK, the insiders guide to the wondrous world of Westminster,…
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According that bastion of Tory values, the Daily Telegraph, “David Cameron is  the ‘Wayne Rooney of Europe, always defeated’ says German media, as reported by the Prime Minister likened to England’s footballer because of his failure to block appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker to top European position.” “In Brussels Cameron is becoming increasingly the Wayne Rooney…
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Thanks to all of you who wrote so passionately in the Guardian’s comment column on my article “Why boarding schools produce bad leaders” in Tuesday’s edition, in which I attempted to expose the Wounded Leader problem. You are really helping the public to see that this issue is real and pressing. And thanks to the…
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The Glasgow Herald reported today that a leading Scottish Teacher’s Union official has, said: “Private schools pay no domestic rates, which saves millions every year which would have gone to local authorities. In the light of the emerging evidence of the psychological problems of boarding and revelations of the widespread culture of abuse, boarding schools…
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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for the Boarding Schools Association, known to chosen insiders as “Ye Olde Knights of the True Grit,” there appears this ghastly story, from the bastion of public school values, The Telegraph. I feel torn about reproducing it, but have decided that perhaps only terrible shocks can…
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After the Observer backed our letter in protest against boarding the Boarding School  Association, assembling their arguments at their annual conference,  return fire: “Rising numbers of children should be sent to boarding schools to develop “true grit” and vital social skills, according to a leading headmaster, Ray McGovern,” announces The Telegraph proudly. This comes hours…
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“Boarding schools: pupils’ suffering has been ignored for too long: the ex-boarder may never develop emotional intelligence,” runs the headline in today’s Observer. Those of us aware of the problems of this British habit of sending children away to elite boarding schools and campaigning against it celebrated a small triumph. The background to this was that…
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After 25 years of hammering away on this subject it looks like finally the truth about boarding is coming out. Boarding children have to do without parents and healthy touch; unsurprisingly, they end up loosing their ability to feel, to speak out about injustice, and develop a healthy sense of self. Abuse is so common…
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How can Michael Gove say that the great pointless slaughter of the First World War, whose centenary we should now be mourning, not celebrating, was fought “in a just cause”? Where does he get his history from? It must be from Max Hastings, former editor of The Daily Telegraph, and Daily Mail columnist, and arch-traditional…
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