Remember, the grammar schools that have been illegally refusing to take people back in the Upper Sixth unless they had managed at least three Bs in the Lower Sixth are the institutions that this year's Outer Right Conservative manifesto had wanted to impose on the whole country. It is no wonder that the party that proposed such a thing proceeded to lose its overall majority. Like foxhunting, it will never, ever again be put to the electorate by any party that wanted to win.
As for the public schools, we are now saying what we always knew: due to no fault on the part of the pupils, those schools' starry performance at exams was as due to their cosy relationship with exam boards as their success at gaining admission to stellar universities was due to their cosy relationship with admissions tutors.
Still, I shall be as critical of the public schools as I am of the grammar schools when certain prominent figures on the Left are invited to speak at the latter, as they routinely are at the former.
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