Ratty, my school won the public schools' fives several years on the trot and held the Bisley Cottesloe vase for several years too. Eton and Harrow hold no fears for me, but so many of their output are so damaging to the country. They are taught to think only of themselves and their kind, and that is what they do. It is more that I despise them than hate and loathe them.

Thatcher? Even if she had been male she would never have been a gentleman: a true boor's boor - as prejudiced as a boer, too, with the grace of a boar. Don't you know that even at school she was known as "Bossy Roberts"?

However, I perceive that with the customary stupidity of a conservative, you are unable to address the actual point about the abuse of power to beget power.