We are angry about India but

I am not offended. I'm registering an objection to a word's negative usage. I'd just rather that term were not used in such a loaded way. I'm as aware as anyone what the loading is about and the disconnect between some very privileged people and ordinary folk.

So my request is simply, if you be so good as not to use the "Oxbridge" in a negatively loaded way I would take it kindly. I think it is as bad as racism. It taints every Oxbridge person by association.

Just as 'Paki' does.

bags you cannot deny that they "old school tie" and Oxbridge have enabled a certain class of men to retain a lot of the power in this country. (Cameron-Osborne-Johnson etc) I think it is clear that was the sense in which it was used, not as an insult to everyone who ever went to Oxford or Cambridge.

I accept that, jess. But I still don't like the term. I guess I'm just sick of it because using that term doesn't solve anything of the old school tie problem.

Oxford can't be all bad. They accepted me as a post-grad!

And Mr Bags.

Mind you, the post-grad university is rather different from the undergrad scene. But I epect that's true elsewhere as well.

I won't say a word!

I get your point thatbags such generalisations are unnecessary and, as you so politely point out, can easily be avoided by those who would like to do so. There are plenty of people who have studied at those universities who do not come from privileged backgrounds and people at other universities who have.

Yes, as I have accepted. No need to labour the point.