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Telegraph journalist seeks to explain lack of social mobility at the Bar

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By Alex Aldridge on

This extract from Flora Watkins’ piece on state schools versus private schools is illuminating of a certain mindset that continues to exist within the legal profession…

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The reference to “poise” is particularly depressing.

I will send my children private if I can’t get them into a grammar [The Telegraph]

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