Toffs rule OK. Ludicrous as the antics of Oxford's Bullingdon Club are, do they really tell us something is rotten in the state of Britain today? As London is taken over by one old member, Boris Johnson, two others, David Cameron and George Osbourne, look more likely than ever before to be running the country in a couple of years time.
This prompts John Harris to ask today why Labour isn't protesting about the stranglehold on top university places - and top jobs afterwards - by the products of independent schools.
Is this because they are better schools - better funded by miles and not subject to political interference and the child-centred learning that Conservative education spokesman Michael Gove attacked yesterday?
Or will state schools never reach their potential while the public schools perpetuate social inequalities which seem to be getting worse not better? Certainly things are not improving - long-term studies of children born in 1958 and 1970 show the latter were less likely to move up the social and employment ladder.
A Sutton Trust report found intergenerational mobility had since stagnated for 30 years. So does the present inequality need a more confrontational approach?
The Charity Commission has suggested fairly mildly that private schools should be a little more charitable to the sort of people some of them were set up to help - the sons and daughters of the poor. Yet the Independent Schools Council already talks of "cold war" between the private and public sectors. Sounds as if they are preparing to defend those privileges.
