King's Scholars and other Etonians with their backs to The Monarchist
"Rex Henricus", a fellow Etonian now attending the prestigious institution, delivers us the shocking news:
It may also interest readers of TM that I am only able to access your journal at the moment because I am at home from school on holiday: the College, in its infinite wisdom, has always banned the ability to post to TM and other weblogs and recently blocked the site altogether, no doubt fearing that you would somehow poison my mind with counter-revolutionary fervour...Egad, I was wondering why our visitors and hits from Eton had suddenly dried up. Now we know.
Surely you jest sir? It seems that this might be part of a campaign to forbid their tender wards from being corrupted by blogs in general. They must not understand that The Monarchist is not some degenerate rant site, but a premier product in the wasteland of the blogsphere. Perhaps we should lobby the Headmaster? I can understand that they are afraid of some incautious student besmirching the good name of the school, but if ever there was an exception, it is this blog.
ReplyDeleteThat is a splendid idea, Kipling. I will see if I can track down the email of the Headmaster or some other suitable contact and ask for an exception to their ban on Blogger.
ReplyDeleteMuch appreciated though your thoughts and intentions are, I fear that they might have negative effects for your own correspondent (i.e. me). I believe I have already contravened school rules through my portrayal of the school, and as I am no doubt the only Etonian on the IT Helpdesk database as having logged an (unsuccessful) request for The Monarchist to be unblocked (and, at that, a request lodged on the premise of educational value, having asked that it be unblocked in the week when Graham Smith of Republic UK came to visit), I fear I would be traced and set before the Head Master on a charge before too long for having given individuals from the real world - yourselves - a bad image of the school. I do however remain optimistic that, as at every meeting of the school IT committee (which includes boys) and of the various year-group councils and the like, this issue has been raised, we may yet reach the stage where I can at the very least view The Monarchist, if not contribute to it. Failing that, I shall just replace my existing Nokia telephone with one of those shiny new telephones which can connect to the internet and suchlike (and thus circumvent school network restrictions).
ReplyDeleteIn any case, should you gentlemen require any more dispatches from the front line of the modern English public school and wee nuggets of information and history from the same (the White Ensign flown by Jellicoe's flagship, HMS Iron Duke, at Jutland,hangs in the antechapel of College Chapel, which is the larger of the two places of worship in the school, for example), then I am happy to try and oblige.
Your wish is my command.
ReplyDeleteI had no desire to land you hot water Rex. All the best.
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ReplyDeleteThis is outrageous, not Logical (this is like expelling a journalist from the White House) E forgot, forgot history Himself (who does not remember the Past, has no future)
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