What is class if it’s not structural and cultural discrimination against people based on their birth? Mark WalfordLondon• How myopic and deplorable for supporters of private education to criticise plans to widen access to universities such as Cambridge and Oxford by arguing that they will deny places to UK students based on their class. That is exactly what has happened to generation after generation of working-class students denied access to those institutions. Is it blindness to the obvious or gross hypocrisy? Click here to upload it and we’ll publish the best submissions in the letters spread of our print edition

Source: The Guardian January 30, 2020 17:48 UTC