James Delingpole: All students need a ‘sense of entitlement’ — ask my fundie friend Rupert 

‘Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,’ said John Lennon. Quite apposite from a man who — presumably — meant to spend a ripe old age staging increasingly embarrassing art happenings with Yoko Ono, rather than be shot dead by a nutcase. It also applies to the two things that most grabbed me on TV this week: A Very English Education (BBC2, Sunday) and the Red Wedding episode of Game of Thrones (available via Blinkbox).

The first, a follow up to Public School — the BBC’s 1979 fly-on-the-wall series about Radley — sought to find out what had become of its various stars. One of them, Rupert Gather, is now a very successful fund manager. Rupert is an old friend from way back. But though I knew he had served in tanks in the first Gulf war, I hadn’t been aware of his appearance in Public School as a sweetly bumptious 17-year-old filmed boasting about his plans to read English at Balliol.