Daniel Hahn

Experiences of Eton — and the success it rewards

Musa Okwonga, who arrived at Eton from a very different background to his peers, reflects on the competitiveness and ambition fostered by this one small institution

Eton College. [Alamy] 
issue 10 July 2021
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In the summer of 2019, the journalist Anita Sethi was on a train travelling across northern England when she was racially abused by another passenger. Besides using several words too offensive to quote, the man spat that Sethi should go back to where she came from. And so she did.

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