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James Delingpole

James Delingpole: I told Radley school pupils how to rebel. But I'm not sure they want to

From primary school onwards, we're handed this starter pack of right-on notions — and if we question them we're regarded as pariahs

23 November 2013

9:00 AM

23 November 2013

9:00 AM

For two blissful days last week I was at Radley College — what you might call the posh person’s Eton — as the school’s Provocateur-in-Residence.

Delightful place: like an especially agreeable gentleman’s club with a first-rate school attached. My only criticism — and it’s not really a criticism, more a rueful observation — is that even in this Helm’s Deep of immense soundness, the Orcish forces of lentil-eating progressivism have begun tunnelling beneath the walls and infecting the defenders of western civilisation with their malign and slithy creed.

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