Fraser Nelson Fraser Nelson

Purge of the posh

Should employees be judged by their parents' income? Our Prime Minister appears to think so

issue 04 June 2016

Any parents considering Dollar Academy are invited to take their car along its long driveway and park outside what looks like a palace. When I first did so with my parents, I told them that it all looked ridiculously posh. My mum flew into a rage. ‘Posh’ was a word of bigotry, she said, and one I’d best not use if I was going to survive a day in boarding school.

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