Perception and Reality
Social mobility is a big issue these days with many people crying the fact that people who go to private schools end up claiming all the top jobs.
So, it was a surprise to learn that so many of the senior people at the left-leaning Guardian newspaper went to these private schools - and here is a list of names that is the source of much merriment in political circles these days.
Now I never knew that so many of these journalists came from such privileged backgrounds, but I can't say that I'm surprised.
Maybe that explains why I found it so difficult to raise the huge over-representation of Labour supporters as senior figures in Britain's trade unions - when so many senior bods at the Guardian happen to wear their left-wing credentials on their sleeves.
Editor - Alan Rusbridger (Cranleigh)
Political editor - Patrick Wintour(Westminster)
Leader writer - Madeleine Bunting (Queen Mary’s,Yorkshire)
Policy editor - Jonathan Freedland (University College School)
Columnist - Polly Toynbee (Badminton)
Executive editor - Ian Katz (University College School)
Security affairs editor - Richard Norton Taylor (King’s School, Canterbury)
Arts editor-in-chief - Clare Margetson (Marlborough College)
Literary editor - Clare Armitstead (Bedales)
Public services editor - David Brindle (Bablake)
City editor - Julia Finch (King’s High, Warwick)
Environment editor John Vidal (St Bees)
Fashion editor - Jess Cartner-Morley (City of london School for Girls)
G3 editor - Janine Gibson (Walthamstow Hall)
Northern editor - Martin Wainwright (Shreswbury)
Industrial editor - David Gow (StPeter’s, York)
Comment editor - Seumas Milne, an Old Wykehamist (Winchester College) and at Balliol;
Guardian columnist - George Monbiot (Stowe)
Guardian columnist - Zoe Williams (Godolphin and Latymer)
The Observer columnist - Andrew Rawnsley (Rugby School and Cambridge U)
Seumas Milne is also the son of former BBC Director General Alisdair Milne
