• REMEMBER the shrewd insight of a master at Eton, Martin Hammond, reporting to our prime minister’s father about his son: “I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.” *

How has that panned out 40 years on?
* – quoted in S Sanghera
Empireland (2021).

MIKE BOR, W2