The prime mover was the colonial secretary, Arthur Creech Jones, but the principal responsibility rested with the minister of food, the Old Etonian ex-Communist John Strachey. Both men’s reputations ...

1871-72: Wanderers defeat Royal Engineers 1-0 1872-73: Wanderers defeat Oxford University 2-1 1873-74: Oxford University defeat Royal Engineers 2-0 1874-75: Royal Engineers defeat Old Etonians, 1-1, 2 ...

Its mockery of the British class system and the dominance of Old Etonians is fun, but having raised it at the very beginning (‘Born to Lead’), the show obstinately refuses to actually go ...