Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

In Lindsay Anderson’s great 1968 film called “If….”:

Denson says “I serve the nation - you haven’t the slightest idea what it means have you?” - showing a badge on his school blazer. To which Travis replies “…you mean that bit of wool on your tit?!”

I’ve always wondered what that badge is and ...

Surely (hopefully) he'll be on the register which means he can't have any unsupervised contact with anyone under 18...?

rockfreak wrote: Wed Jun 12, 2024 9:10 pmOK, so we were not actually restrained at CH but we were effectively kid (at age 11) napped, although 9 in my case.

Suggest you watch The Program on Netflix (if you haven't already) for a genuine example of kidnapping. Truly terrifying stuff.

Gladding had absolutely outstanding apathy skills. To this day I have never met anyone who could give less of a damn.


The greatest example of this would have been early one Sunday morning when Mr Gladding informed us that Daniel Smith had died. I can't imagine this would have been very easy for ...

AMP wrote: Wed Aug 11, 2021 12:09 pm
Dobbie turned up to an OB christmas reunion at The Chandos in 2016 with a young thai boy and was asked to leave.

Don’t want to be a pedant but it was June 2016, not Christmas. And he was told to f*** off rather than being asked to leave!

Despite all that, he has some significant achievements to his credit. He has not initiated any foreign wars and has tried to wind-down many of those already in existence involving overseas campaigns. He has made some major advances towards peace between Israel and some Arab states. He also went ...

Food in the late 80s/early 90s really was dreadful. When I started the “food” for all 3 meals was dealt out by the older boys which meant that anything “nice” such as chips often didn’t make it down to the younger ones. At some point (I don’t recall when) breakfast & tea was switched to “cafeteria ...

Otter wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2020 10:12 am For sex offenders, release from prison is not freedom - it's the start of the real punishment and daily fear.

Good.

Truly frightening. And these are the cases we know about. Likely to be the tip of the proverbial iceberg sadly.

I watched both programmes last night.

2) Whether CH was one of the schools who sent a character reference/letter of support?


A brief glimpse of a letter from Cranleigh appears at 53.00 minutes in episode 1. I'm wondering if Gloucestershire Police would disclose this sort of information if you ...

George Carey is still alive and allowed to sit in the Lords despite calls for him to resign

https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2017/06/lord-carey-faces-calls-to-resign-from-lords-and-face-criminal-investigation


Two very different matters here.
The Secular Society sounds as if it is opposed ...

I would hope that charges should be brought against the Cof E hierarchy, Archbishop, but in particular his chief of staff for aiding an offender; and if not gross negligence in the civil court; that level of conspiracy is a disgrace.

No doubt richardb will counsel me that such actions are likely ...

Very shocking and disturbing documentary. George Carey should be ashamed (and also thrown out of the House of Lords).

Otter wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 11:11 am In my view, the opinion expressed by some that a drop of alcohol is evil if you are one day under 18, is a direct contributor to the UK having far more problems with alcoholism and binge drinking than most other developed nations.

Spot on!

Well done Robert, as ever, for all you are doing to support the other victims. In terms of our letters/emails to them, how lengthy do they need to be? Do we need to provide a compelling argument as to why CH should be included, or do we assume they already know the facts and simply lend our ...