James Delingpole says You Know It Makes Sense
Apparently I’m in the doghouse. It’s because of a piece I wrote in Tatler which asked the question: ‘If you had a boy and a girl and could only afford to educate one of them privately, which would you choose?’
All other things being equal, I foolhardily argued, it should be the boy.
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