‘Free Schools’– The Way of the Future?

Ex ‘Dissolute’ Young Man Gets Serious

By Tom Aitken in London

Several years ago, David Selves, Deputy Chairman of the London Press Club, author of a number of thrillers, passionate cricketer and pub landlord, instituted a meal at which a figure  in the news  is grilled by David, using questions submitted by members of the club.

The latest victim, at the Press House Bar, just off Fleet Street (once, of course, the centre of the London newspaper world) was Toby Young, a journalist who has led a group who wished to establish a ‘free school’ in West London...READ MORE