‘Private education is not fair. Those who provide it know it. Those who pay for it know it. Those who have to sacrifice in order to purchase it know it. And those who receive it know it, or should.’ Britain’s most prestigious games, in law, government, the media and the arts, are famously over-represented by such players. Around 7 per cent of Britons have been privately educated, yet they make up over 70 per cent of the nation’s barristers and 60 per cent of its Oscar winners. Less than one per cent of the population attended Oxford or Cambridge, yet their graduates have produced the majority
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