Eton Mess?

As ever, Michael Gove is going to have to do an awful lot better, but won't, because he can't.

 

David Goodhart went to Eton.

As did Tam Dalyell, the sound of whose utterly uncompromising upper-class accent on the Today programme on the morning of Tony Benn's death brought to mind ... well, Tony Benn.

 

Eton is a good school. Obviously, it has very significant advantages. But even so.

 

And by all accounts, whereas there seems to be plenty of Bullingdon-in-waiting but little or no organised right-wingery of any serious kind, the George Orwell Society flourishes like the bay tree.

 

Even if it does need to be put back in touch with the ILP tradition that was its (in general, somewhat overrated) hero at his best. Trotskyist literature, brought by visiting speakers, currently sells out at its packed meetings.

 

But at least it is there. In fact, it is going strong.