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Status anxiety

Russell Brand and Nigel Farage remind me of myself five years ago

Politicians don’t just compromise because they’re cynics. They do it to get things done

25 October 2014

9:00 AM

25 October 2014

9:00 AM

I’m often asked by other free school proposers what lessons I’ve learnt over the past five years. Any pearls of wisdom I can pass on so they don’t make the same mistakes?

My standard response is to reel off a checklist of things I would have done differently if I’d known then what I know now.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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