Richard Beard

Richard Beard is the author of “Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England” (Vintage)

The price of private education

For as long as boarding school survivors govern Britain, they will inflict their own pain on the nation.

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By speaking out in his autobiography, Spare, Harry challenges a repressed institution that traduced his grief and demanded his…

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Simon Kuper’s book Chums tells the story of how one university taught the core of today’s Brexit government how…

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