Can you imagine the ignominy of having to admit to attending a school that produced Ken Clarke, noted Europhile and mainstay of the tobacco industry (a fellow pupil of mine), Ed Balls, currently responsible for the chaos in our schools, and Geoff Hoon, currently responsible for the chaos on the roads – even if the latter is reputed to be the only member of the government who actually knows how to switch on and operate a computer! However before I got there the old place more than compensated via one David Herbert Richards Lawrence, author of, among other works, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which famously one’s wife and servants should be discouraged from reading.