Among the articles in this weeks New Statesman, guest edited by Alastair Campbell, is a survey of whether newspaper editors use private health care and whether they send their children, if they have them, to fee-paying schools.
The whole thing was a bit of an own goal. For Conservatives there is no great difficulty. It would be a practical matter. Is there a good state school near where we live? Can we afford to go private? There is no question of hypocrisy as we don't claim there is anything wrong with using the independent sectors.
So, for instance, Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail, answered the questions. What does not seem to be on the website edition but was included in the print version were those editors who refused to answer. They include Richard Wallace, Editor of the Daily Mirror, Tina Weaver, Editor of the Sunday Mirror and Lloyd Embley, Editor of the People. All staunch titles backing Labour with plenty of class war rhetoric. There is also James Harding of The Times who doesn't reply. Campbell used to work for The Mirror and is now a regular contributor to The Times. But he seems to have meekly accepted their refusal to respond to his enquiries.