Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

On the subject of immigration, I've now heard the same thing from two sources: one was Simon Jenkins, one of the senior leader writers in the Guardian, and the other someone like Barnier or Juncker in the EU, that for as long as anyone can remember we've taken in more immigrants from outside the EU ...

I wonder if any CH pupils managed to bunk off to attend the Climate Change protests last week.

A new outlet for Freaky. I get a letter into Private Eye: P22 in the current issue headed "Ties that bind". The ties in question are the old school ones. Their reviewer, covering a couple of books about the public school system, had said that what the critics of these schools couldn't acco...

Katharine wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 11:33 pm I cannot imagine any such conversation with an adult in CH Hertford in my day!

Come on Katharine, I bet DR was a total uninhibited raver.

One of Gad's sayings that I remember from English classes: "The Sagger says that your rifle is your best friend but I say that your dictionary is your best friend." Worked well for me - I was a scribbler (music papers) rather than a soldier.

Interesting to see Dr Matthews and his sex education crop up. Elsewhere on the site someone has already reminded us that when said Doc was asked how one should approach one's girlfriend in matters of l'amor he said "it's alright as long as you're both laughing". This puzzled many of us at ...

If Wesley Clark is not to your personal liking then who is? Let's have a "name your favourite general" competition. By the way, another big American name at the time was Alan Greenspan, head of the Federal Reserve at the time of Bush Jr. There's that news clip where Greenspan had just fini...

If Wesley Clark is not to your personal liking then who is? Let's have a "name your favourite general" competition. By the way, another big American name at the time was Alan Greenspan, head of the Federal Reserve at the time of Bush Jr. There's that news clip where Greenspan had just fini...

Without bothering to engage with it point by point, Avon says that my post is arrant bollocks. I suppose that this is the kind of chortling response that ex-public schoolboys and Bullingdon boys like Boris Johnson would say about something they disagreed with but were too lazy to engage with. Like &...

J.R. wrote: ↑Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:30 pm I do love good conspiracy theories.

How do you know it's a conspiracy theory?

I'm always a bit wary of putting too black and white a picture on these colonial events because I suspect so much happens below the public and news radar. For instance, the affair of the UN's Dag Hammarskjold's plane being shot down over half a century ago has recently come to light as a result of a...

On the subject of food, George Orwell (dreadful Prep school and Eton) said that in his day the poorest working class family served better (if plain) but more edible food than the English public schools. Of course Orwell came from the South so it's possible his home fare was better than that of the d...

Will Jezza go down with his ship AND his red flag ?? One can only hope. No more or less than the Maybot will go down with her ship and her blue flag. Brexit aside, which party is more likely to deal with homelessness, food banks, inequality, sky-high rents, a dysfunctional social security system an...

Firstly, no big country goes into another for any length of time for the good of the indigenous population. There is always something they want. Oil, gold, minerals or to keep a trade route open. This is the raison d'etre behind Afghanistan and Iraq. You talk about refugees flowing hither and thithe...

It's an interesting point Katharine to ask why we Brits were in these places to begin with. The Gold Coast (Ghana) might be a giveaway. It's so often because these countries are rich in minerals that the big powers take an interest in them. If we were doing such a great job why did resistance or ind...