James Delingpole says You Know It Makes Sense
Apparently I’m in the doghouse. It’s because of a piece I wrote in Tatler which asked the question: ‘If you had a boy and a girl and could only afford to educate one of them privately, which would you choose?’
All other things being equal, I foolhardily argued, it should be the boy.
This is the kind of article guaranteed to grab the attention of the termagants’ website Mumsnet. And so it came to pass. Friends kept forwarding me links to the discussion going on about me, in much the same kindly, helpful way they email links to unpleasant reviews of my books I might otherwise have missed. But I’m afraid I was too squeamish to investigate. If the Mumsnet harpies are capable of eviscerating a prime minister just because he has chosen the wrong kind of biscuit, imagine what they’d do to the kind of antediluvian Male Chauvinist Pig who thinks boys are superior to girls.
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