The point about ANW is that negative opinion, unless you are extremely talented, is unattractive. A rant between friends is OK. Going into permanent print lamenting decline is nearly always the sign of a small person. Which is odd, since there is so much to criticise. The only way round this problem is to be an excoriating satirist.

As for Dulwich, I don’t know the numbers. Dulwich has what you might call a barbell demographic, of course, with the Kingswood Estate, so overall statistics can be a bit meaningless. On the other hand, the local primary schools have always been pretty good, I think, so I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out that most middle-class kids (which means upper-middle-class kids, given Dulwich property values) go to state schools. As for secondary schools, there’s no doubt that in my day those middle-class parents would do almost anything to avoid their kids ending up at Kingsdale. But I just downloaded the prospectus for (ahem) the Kingsdale Foundation School, The Multimedia School of Academic, Creative and Vocational Studies, and I have to say I’m very, very impressed. And probably would have happily gone there myself had it existed then.

Even in our old stamping ground of Dulwich, Felix, the vast majority of kids go to the local state schools. All those Dulwich College and Alleyns kids seem to come from the wilds of Clapham.