Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

No. There is sufficient evidence to suggest that there was institutional awareness of these things, such that, on occasion, a blind eye was turned. In at least one case the victim was silenced. It’s not enough to make the assumption that things have changed, that there are fundamentally nicer peopl...

Hi All We all have our own views on what happened at CH (at Horsham) from 1969 to 2001, although I would suggest, on police evidence 1963 to 2014. I suppose the fundamental question is - did people know about what was going on or did they not? That is not for me to answer. It is for you. When you w...

... the private boarding school system is an institution run by snobs, sadists, pederasts and psychological retards and doesn't turn out people like Boris Johnson and Steve Hilton. Nor that on the unofficial site I opined that a megabomb should be put under the school and that it should be blown sk...

Perhaps had I clicked on it, I might have learnt what I was being invited to join! When I opened up the CH Forum this morning as a guest, there was a similar invitation to join an organisation claiming to be the Knights Templar. Interestingly, I doubt it would have been because of my browsing histo...

There is a secretive descendant international body with headquarters in a house in Rome (authorised residents limited to 2) which is involved in international charity, assistance and mediation. Seems to be more extreme that the Jesuits, close to the Vatican but 100% independent, diplomatically reco...

I thought they were suppressed back in the middle ages by some monarch or other. Dr Scuffil would have been able to tell us all about it. Friday 13 October 1307 by King Philip IV of France with the support of the highly fallible Pope Clement V. Clement V must go down in history as one of the most w...

Things were very different at Hertford. I can’t remember anyone doing O levels early. For most people, 8 was the maximum, though it was possible to take either Art or Music, almost as an aside, as an extra ninth one. The A levels was the rule too, I desperately wanted to do a fourth, I could alread...

Thus it was that Christ's wife was demoted to being a whore and her epistle destroyed; men come first and still do in the RC church. Oh come on David - you can't have imagined you would get away without this assertion being challenged? Whilst I very much like the idea of Mary Magdalene being Jesus'...

Magee was a scrupulously honest man and there can be no doubt that the incident took place as he described. However, it does raise an interesting question. The woman was a qualified sister which indicates that she had done her full course as a nurse and, assuming that she had started training at 17...

From The Times on line: Senior figures in Corbyn’s team counterattacked last night, criticising the BBC’s approach. A Labour source said: “Rather than investigating anti-semitism in the Labour Party in a balanced and impartial way, Panorama appears to have predetermined its outcome and created a pro...

That link is indeed an estimated 5,000 abused pupils. David was giving an estimate to understand how many pupils could have been abused. Thank you for providing the text. 'Abused' and 'could have been abused' is not the same thing at all. There are 66 million people in the UK. All of them 'could ha...

I'm not just talking about income tax although even there the top band of income tax in Sweden and Denmark is about 55% as opposed to 45% here. Interestingly, the top rate here was 60% for the first nine years of Mrs Thatcher's time in office. It's really to do with tax on unearned assets, particul...

Why does Eton makes the headlines offering these scholarships? Our class-ridden and desperately envious society is fascinated by the doings of the rich and famous to a degree bordering on prurience and Eton is where the rich and famous send their children to be educated. This is also why when report...

An estimated 5,000 pupils have been abused at Christ's Hospital: https://www.chforum.info/php/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=5209&p=142368&#p142368 That is not at all what the thread to which you refer says. In full, it says this which is not the same thing: 'First, how can they know how many wer...

I imagine because Germany has long run a properly, progressively taxed society to try and deliver equality of opportunity (as far as it can be achieved) while we still wallow in a society in hoc (sic) to Brideshead, Downton, costume dramas and other rose-tinted heritage stuff. I will make the same ...