In the days when I wrote a weekly column for Liberal Democrat News - in the days when there was a Liberal Democrat News - I had a Press Gallery pass at the Palace of Westminster.
Everyone said the place resembled nothing so much as a public school. Not having attended such an establishment myself, I was not really qualified to judge.
But the it certainly resembled what I imagined a public school to be like, albeit largely without the roasting over fires or flagellation.
One day in 2001 I saw an improbably youthful figure on the opposition front bench. He really did look like a cheeky fourth-former sitting in the prefects' seats. I expected him to be booted out as soon as they turned up.
I asked a Press Gallery attendant (they know everyone by sight) who he was.
"That's George Osborne,"he explained.
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