Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Oh FFS.

Alex is a bot identity, a robot. Not human, not even ex human. There have been a few on the site recently.

Giveaways include winsome breezy posts of bare relevance, having snapshotted and synthesised some essence of the posts they are replying to and perhaps utilising some low level AI in ...

sejintenej wrote: Thu Jan 01, 2026 3:47 pm Alex. Not sure about melbec whatever that is. I go with dealing with foreigners and their languages. Made life fun..

Alex is a bot.

1) AI slop.

2) Steve Hilton is unhinged and an embarrassment to CH. He is a Trump ultra-loyalist, i.e. he has thrown the CH Charge in the bin. He spread dangerous conspiracy theories about Covid, vaccines, etc. etc. A disgrace to CH, and hard to see how the mainly moderate voters of California ...

Well that only took 472 years.

And again! Today, 12 July.

My letter is titled "Wealth has migrated away from ordinary people". As you can imagine the FT rather goes in to bat for those put-upon, internationally mobile, "high net worth" individuals who are supposedly doing so much for our economy and national life. I contest ...

rockfreak wrote: Wed Mar 12, 2025 10:07 pm So no response to my points about investing.

Probably because you never reply.

I’m surprised a house in Gravesend has much value at all.

VAT seems the fairest approach and long-overdue. I’ve no desire to bankroll the scions of MoD and Diplomatic Corps staff, nor the rash of Chinese (HK or otherwise) that take up a significant chunk of the private sector.

Some bells are ringing. The post that talks about Drummond (Scott's assistant) having an affair with Nan. As I recall from my mercifully brief stays in the Sicker, Nan was one of the cleaners (described here as an orderly). I remember her as a rather nice, motherly woman who had a smile for every ...

Actually, St Matthew’s Day was the first time that I came to realise that there was such a thing as a mixer-sized can for fizzy drinks. The Corporation of London was so hard up that it couldn’t run to a normal can and so we all got the teeny-weeny cans.

20p. And a whole lot of standing around.

The really profitable gig was selling programmes for the Lord Mayor’s Show. That was nearly £50 and about 1/2lb of tobacco.

I went from Aston Webb’s CH to Aston Webb’s BRNC and they were spookily similar, except that at the time BRNC (Hawke Division at least) was quite well looked after whereas I vividly remember how tired and jury-rigged the boarding houses at Horsham were. Now it’s Dartmouth hitting the news for being ...

I remember her, sad to read the backstory.

Our resident scratched record will be along shortly with a book recommendation.

It seems fitting that his passing is recorded in this sub forum on the abuse cases.

The school has since closed the hyperlink to the original statement it made after Dobbie’s conviction. But it did say at the time:


“it is clear that abuse at Christ Hospital was enabled not only by the ...

As I reflect, I think it’s remarkable that we bestowed so much ceremony on receiving such dreadful food (in the time of Mrs. Keeley, mass-poisoner).

ISTR much worse transgressions than this in my time. We started one band parade under the Big School arches and ‘buzzed’ the band. PeA stopped ...

The less martial pageantry the better IMHO. I can see the value of doing it say, once a week, but it was a chore doing it daily.