Politics

Exams at the University of Oxford are tough, but there is one test that students nearly always pass with flying colours: 98 per cent of those who took part in an in-house university-funded assessment centre to screen for learning difficulties, including ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), were told they may have a condition. The screening process involved answering questions like: ‘Would you describe yourself as a well-organised person?’ and ‘Do you tend to be on time to appointments?’. Students who met the criteria were then granted up to 25 per cent extra time in exams. If I’d gone through the screening for ADHD, that extra time in exams would have been

It is a requirement of the Royal Family that they should remain politically neutral. They are, after all, the only family in the United Kingdom who are constitutionally not allowed to vote. However, this does not stop its various members from having opinions and expressing them, sometimes in embarrassing and distinctly un-regal fashions. Whether it’s the Queen Mother’s lady-in-waiting Helen Hardinge writing in her diary that her employer was a ‘diehard Tory’, the late Queen’s open and clear affection for the Labour PM Harold Wilson or, more recently, Prince Harry’s equally open and clear contempt for Donald Trump, the old royal adage of ‘never complain, never explain’ has been tested