After the controversy surrounding Labour’s plans to add VAT to private school fees, Broadstairs writer and columnist Melissa Todd ponders inequalities in the UK’s education system… Interesting to see grammar schools outperforming private schools in this year’s GCSE results, wasn’t it? Apparently there are still a few things money can’t buy. Not that I’m a fan of ten-year-olds being tutored into insanity to pass some hideous pointless test. Indeed, I don’t much approve of schools at all. They’re a comparatively recent historical development, and they seem to have a truly terrible effect on many…
