I am the last boy to have been beaten at Eton... Our archivist has checked... and can find no record of any beating since summer 1980. From Lord of the Flies to Hogwarts, the dark side of boarding schools occupies its own fascinating genre of horror and bleak comedy.
Insights into that culture have informed how we understand our three most influential recent leaders: old Etonians David Cameron and Boris Johnson; and Winchester-educated Rishi Sunak. Where did their entitlement and casual cruelty come from?
My emotional Waterloo happened in January 1984. I was 13... I was found vomiting in my room by the dame... The following morning, my housemaster visited me in the san, and advised me of the gravity of my misdeed.
...the bill was a dreaded disciplinary process where boys were summoned to the headmaster, or in the case of younger boys, a housemaster, or an assistant master, or the captain of the house.
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