I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.
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As one of the grammar-school generation, I grew up as part of a postwar meritocracy that steadily infiltrated the citadels of power.
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I'm not arguing for a return to the grammar school system, but there must be a way of identifying bright kids from ordinary backgrounds and giving them a world-class education.
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I haven't got a family. I live to work.
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Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.
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Americans have this patrician attitude that they have a God-given right to produce these boring newspapers and not be challenged to do it. 'The New York Times' really thinks it's the BBC.
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When you have variety, you have freedom.
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No one can be in any doubt that Britain is becoming more like Europe, though few in an increasingly economically illiterate media seem to realise it.