David Cameron and the Eton Rifles
I’ve been tickled today by MyDavidCameron.com, and I thought I'd add my own. It’s in the spirit of Clifford Singer's about statement in which he says, amongst other things...
…we apologise to any detractors who may have missed this – this site is not in fact entirely serious
I heard our Dave saying (on Desert Island Discs, I think) that he loved the Jam at school and the irony of liking The Eton Rifles was not lost on him.
Answering a charge of inverse snobbery
I don’t actually have anything against people who have gone to Eton, per se – I’m a fan of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall for example – but I’m not a fan of the idea of private education. In practice, I know that life ain’t that simple, as a forthcoming post will touch on.
