INTERESTING insight into the make-up of British society in The Independent newspaper. A report published by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission says that a 'cosy club' of people educated at private schools and Oxbridge still dominates politics, the judiciary and media.

The report calls for class to be given as much priority as gender and ethnicity in a 'national mission' to break open an elite 'formed on the playing fields of independent schools' and 'finished in Oxbridge’s dreaming spire'.