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Welcome to a spectator podcast. I'm James Forsyth. This week we'll be discussing the purge of the posh,

how we're teaching our kids to be too thin-skinned, and the animal lovers case for Brexit.

First up, is it time that public school boys were taken down a peg or two?

Last week, the government unveiled a series of questions that it thinks employers should be prepared to ask applicants, including what did your parents do for a living?

What postcode did you grow up in?

And where did you go to school?

Spectator columnist Matthew Paris, wrote in The Times at the weekend, but sneering at public school tofts is healthy.

But Fraser Nelson argues in his spectator cover piece this week, but all this is bigoted and un-British.

They join me now.

So, Matthew, why should we sneer at Posh Boys?

Because they've acquired an unfair advantage.

They've acquired the patina, the polish, the veneer that comes with a public school education.

And in many cases, they use that advantage to assist each other, to promote each other, and to keep other

other capable young men and women who may not have acquired the polish that a public school

education imparts to keep them out of jobs. So, Fraser, Matthew's surely right about this,

that these expenses education has given these people a leg up in life, and that leveling the

playing field is going to take some kind of action. That's quite right. The question is how

you level the playing field.

Now, what you need to do, in my opinion, is to level the playing field at the education stage

to close the gap between state and private attainment, which this government has actually

has got a great record in doing.

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