By Simon Neville VAT on private schools has been slated as a “tax on aspiration” – but why don’t we focus on making state education aspirational, asks Simon Neville My favourite theory about why the Daily Mail rails against north London’s elites with such vigour is that the paper’s longest serving editor Paul Dacre went to school there and hated it. Back in the 1960s, Dacre won a scholarship to University College School in Hampstead, a private school that wouldn’t look out of place as a backup set for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films. Having grown up in far more modest surroundings than his …