Eton Up the Countryside

Hard economic times affect even the most deserving, and the alma mater of such Tory luminaries as Johnson, Eden, Douglas-Home and Blair has been faced with a cruel dilemma between profit and trout-fishing. Having manfully stepped up to the plate and resolved to sell off a chunk of East Sussex for homes that are affordable to the right sort of people, the nation's principal prefect factory is being criticised over the likely impact on the local environment. Pollution is all very well as long as it's keeping the urban piccaninnies down, but it really ought to know whose back yard to leave alone.