Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Welcome back. Too few girls on site these days. Only Katharine still in there pitching away. They've all decamped into a distaff huddle on their Facebook page.

Belatedly, I would agree with Keibat's point about the quite disgraceful and xenophobic tone of the popular press in this country. The one-time doyen of tabloid publishing Lord Beaverbrook famously said that the purpose of newspapers was not to print news but to make propaganda. And I suppose, rathe...

Talking of Coleridge, there's been an absence of Post War Blue on these threads in weeks past. He was my connection with an earlier era in Col B. Has he been mortally offended by my nautical limerick about him? Or (and one always worries about this sort of thing at my age) has he progressed to the g...

There's a long tradition of "joining" the guilty together in this country. In the old days if there were a lot of prisoners taken to Tyburn to be hanged they would often be roped together in the tumbril on their dismal journey and then strung up in a line on the scaffold. I guess this is a...

I recycled the quote by mistake in the course of editing it. I'm not really a class warrior. This government is levying class war. I can't remember a party so obviously and enthusiastically in cahoots with powerful business and financial interests that work to the detriment of the people.

Corporal punishment may have been par for the course at that time but I agree with Michael Scuffil that some housemasters seemed to take a vicarious pleasure in laying it on while others hardly beat at all. I date from an age when many people in authority seemed to subscribe to the Christian doctri...

Richard Dawkins once recollected that when at his boarding school a master slyly slid his hand up his shorts. Dawkins commented that he hadn't been madly emotionally scarred by this and brushed it off as being part of life's rich (boarding school) pattern. This incurred anger among other commentator...

Corporal punishment may have been par for the course at that time but I agree with Michael Scuffil that some housemasters seemed to take a vicarious pleasure in laying it on while others hardly beat at all. I date from an age when many people in authority seemed to subscribe to the Christian doctri...

I feel insulted that in all my time on the site I haven't been censored. I'm obviously not trying hard enough. "Could do better" as my reports used to say.

I'm the father of three daughters as well. They all went to the local comprehensive and were pretty streetwise. I believe that if anything like this had happened to them my wife and I would have heard about it pretty quickly. From them. This is one of the reasons why I believe boarding schools shoul...

Nick Duffell's theory in his second book Wounded Leaders, and one that I can understand, is that the type of person produced by the boarding schools has dominated our national psyche for two hundred years. I read a comment from a woman in a national tabloid who said that she thought David Cameron wa...

I can understand where Spoony's coming from. Are we going a bit over the top with the sentencing hopes of ten years and the like? The evening news has just announced sixteen years given to a bloke who threw acid over two people and gave them life-changing injuries. I wouldn't demur from the latter s...

Keibat, this is exactly what Nick Duffell is saying in his books on "boarding school survivor syndrome" and the way that our class system has encouraged chauvinism and snobbery, at a time when this sort of nonsense has been largely consigned to history in other western European states. He ...

Corporal punishment may have been par for the course at that time but I agree with Michael Scuffil that some housemasters seemed to take a vicarious pleasure in laying it on while others hardly beat at all. I date from an age when many people in authority seemed to subscribe to the Christian doctrin...

Ha Ha! No, there it is! Shagging in all its glory! There's hope yet.