Posts Tagged ‘ Eton College ’

Eton leads the way – again

Just came across this article in the Telegraph, also in the Sun and Times, announcing that Eton College, by far the most prestigious and well-known school in the UK, has offered a full bursary to 16-year-old Razak Farley from Forest Gate in London. This is, I should point out, nothing new – the school has [ READ MORE ]

John Bercow is the next Speaker

Epic Commons fail. He’s barely even a Conservative, seeing as he apparently tried to defect to Labour not so long ago… I reckon Sir George Young would have been a much better choice (and not because he went to Eton and did Philosophy, Politics & Economics at Christ Church), not least because Bercow is also [ READ MORE ]

Swine flu hits Eton

Somewhat unsurprisingly, one of the many cosmopolitan lads of my alma mater seems to have contracted swine flu – my Facebook news feed informs me of his identity, which I will naturally not reveal here. Luckily, the eccentricities of our summer timetable means that this last Wednesday was the so-called “Fourth of June”, and with [ READ MORE ]

The “real” nasty stories about the Tories

Courtesy of The New Adventures of Juliette. The Miliband and Cameron ones are particularly good. And the Boris one’s actually true. But, like the first anonymous commenter, I disagree with her take on Osborne. Plus he was at St. Paul’s, not Eton. I should know – I went to both… mea culpa :)[ READ MORE ]

State or independent – it doesn’t matter…

I thought I should flag up the frankly bizarre conclusion to be drawn from a sequence of 3 Times articles I came across this morning. The first is here, where it is suggested that private schools start expanding class sizes to “keep fees down as the credit crisis bites”. In theory, I have no real [ READ MORE ]

Day 82 (16.ix.08)

OK, so today was easily the most surreal of the holiday so far – since there’s not much of the holiday left, the rest of the week will have to be pretty damn surreal to come up to today’s standard… I used today for my planned trip to New Haven and Yale, partially for tourism, [ READ MORE ]

Day 73 (7.ix.08)

I actually ended up uploading a lot of photos to Facebook yesterday evening, namely the ones from this year’s Eton Fourth of June, the ball at St Johns College, Oxford, at the end of 9th week, and my trip to Princeton about two-and-a-bit weeks ago, and it was dealing with the backlog of comments on [ READ MORE ]

Day 67 (1.ix.08)

Boston. What a way to mark (just about) two months since I boarded the plane to Toronto all but clueless as to what awaited me on the other side. The city where the War of Independence kicked off with Paul Revere and the tea-party, guaranteeing it iconic status in the eyes of all later generations [ READ MORE ]

Will A-levels stand the test of time?

So. A-levels. Before I start ranting, it would be churlish of me to say the least if I didn’t offer my congratulations to the teachers and pupils who between them managed to produce top grades in their examinations in this year’s bout of exams – nowadays, top grades are A’s only, and the figures I’ve [ READ MORE ]

Day 45 (10.viii.08)

Today was dull, again – the rain meant I couldn’t go anywhere at all until the early evening, by which point two solid days of downpours had lowered the temperature to near-November levels, which made me rather glad I’d packed a couple of jumpers, as yet unused, when I left England. I didn’t really get [ READ MORE ]

First steps.

  • June 23rd, 2008
  • Posted in General

Right then, well here goes for my first post. Always hard to think of what to say in these moments, bit like meeting complete strangers at a party; and ‘breaking the ice’ isn’t quite so easy when you’re sitting at a computer… So perhaps I should mention a little about why I’ve decided to start [ READ MORE ]

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