What the two stories have in common is the insight they provide into how the other half liveWhat a week for Eton. It will certainly be able to raise its £35700-a-year fees after the deluge of publicity generated by former pupils David Cameron and Justin Welby and their colourfully disruptive families. Grace under pressure,isn’t that what they pay to acquire? The prime minister stumbled badly but may yet recover his poise. The oilman turned archbishop never lost it.
By the weekend the row over Cameron’s tax affairs, arising from Guardian disclosures from the Panama Papers, or ran in parallel with the revelations about Welby’s genuine father. Indeed,conspiracy theorists on Twitter were quick to inquire of whether the latter was published by the Daily Telegraph to distract from the former. Life is normally less clever. Cock-up trumps conspiracy.
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Source: theguardian.com