Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

OK gang. What do we think of Brexit four months down the line? Good idea or bad? Will Christ's Hospital be exposed to World Trade Organisation Rules? Will all entrants (and leavers) be whacked with heavy tariffs? Will Banker Brown still get the financial passport? Or will he simply decamp to the Cay...

Not entirely John. The Grauniad obit said that his father was a miner turned glass blower who instilled in him a deep love of learning. "The teachers at Christ's Hospital were bright enough to give a natural rebel a measure of authority which he immediately used to abolish fagging. The experien...

I feel that some of the prob lem is, that we are all paying too little Income Tax. In 95-96 the standard rate was 25%, and came down gradually till 2007-08 when it was 22%. Then there was a 10% cut to 20%. Now we cannot afford anything! The rate has come down just as dramatically for the rich, Davi...

Ignore if it's already been mentioned but at Horsham in the '50s we used to sing Coleridge's hymn "He prayeth well who loveth well". It was originally a poem which was later put to music (I don't know when or by whom). As Coleridge was very much a part of the romantic movement of the early...

Guardian had an obit too, suggesting that he thought public schools encouraged snobbery.

A copper called John couldn't function
Unless he was waving his truncheon.
A woman named Flo said "thank you but no",
I've already had my luncheon.

John, in what way are we puppets of the people across the Channel? Name me some issues where we've voted for something important in the EU Parliament and they've overruled us? Surely it runs in the opposite direction: we managed to duck out of the Social Chapter thus giving our workers much less wor...

It's difficult to discern the motivations of the Leave vote Michael. Immigration is often cited as the main issue but I believe that that is more a general protest about job losses and job insecurity, which seems to me to have come about as much by 37 years of Thatcherite neoliberalism as by anythin...

He's done it for a second time this weekend! Freaky gets a letter in today's Observer congratulating UK Uncut on a sixth birthday this month when in 2010 the TV news showed protestors occupying Vodafone in Oxford Street in the first throw of public anger about tax avoidance, an issue that had previo...

Freaky does it again. Another letter in today's (22nd) Guardian. This time commenting on William Hague's threats to the Bank of England. Why, I ask, is so much made of the Bank's independence? After all, we had a disastrous boom and bust syndrome in the late 80s/early 90s when the Bank was under pol...

A different slant now - an otherwise strict master, Arthur Rider, taking an uncharacteristic break. Maybe he'd just got fed up with trying to cram some French into us but for some reason the subject of a Hollywood film came up in the lesson. "Right," said Arthur, "I'll give you ten mi...

And now, unfortunately, with the Labour party in complete disarray, ther isn't going to be an effective ' opposition ' here now for many years. And if Trumpy Pumpy does get in in the USA, may God help us all !! Which brings me back to my original reason for starting this thread - if people aren't p...

Anyone in any doubt about the intentions and motivations of the modern day Tory party should have had their eyes opened by Nick Clegg's memoirs which record Cameron and Osborne's reactions when Clegg suggested the country needed more affordable housing. Ooh no, they said, you'll just be building hou...

Remind me, was it Angela Woodford who said elsewhere that she had a formidable evangelical upbringing and was relieved to find that the C of E at CH was positively relaxed?

Perhaps mine too, Katharine (fnurg fnurg).