Introduction

British public schools are unique in the Western world for their stranglehold on society. The 7% of people who are privately educated can expect to make up around 70% of senior judges, over half of top journalists and about 85% of our prime ministers. What kind of governance do we get from this tribe of men? With me is Richard Beard, former pupil of Pinewood School and Bradley College and the author of Sad Little Men: How public schools failed Britain.