I was listening to Andrew Dilnot the head of St Hugh's College, Oxbridge on the radio this afternoon. Most of the time the BBC interviewer wanted to know what the colleges were going to do to get more people from state schools in. I did wonder why Dilnot didn't tell them that it's more a case of the state needing to try a bit harder to educate its charges, but perhaps he's too polite.

Now I see that a report commissioned by the government has concluded that grammar and religious schools should be scrapped, again because they are socially exclusive.

And then the thought struck me. How many public school ponces are there at the Football Association's centres of excellence? I mean they are both selective and socially exclusive.

I think we should probably be scrapping them too shouldn't we?