At Downside School he helped to organise a food strike that, according to Early, “involved declaring our supper inedible and returning it uneaten to the kitchen”. Invited to leave
At Downside School he helped to organise a food strike that, according to Early, “involved declaring our supper inedible and returning it uneaten to the kitchen”. Invited to leave
We know Plum Sykes a bit and she has talked a little about her father. She’s pleasant enough but a strangely lonely and melancholy person, insecure and needy. This may explain why. The bloke was clearly an ocean going cunt.
“You can’t expect a boy to be vicious till he’s been to a good school.”
– Saki
No mention of the many beatings-up he must surely have suffered? Even his appearance would surely invite the odd dig?