A little out of touch

Every so often, Swansea’s local paper inadvertently reminds its readership that it shares the same owners (and egalitarian values) as the Daily Mail.

Today’s example is an editorial lament that private schools have all but disappeared in the city. Describing the problem as a shrinking market, the paper nonetheless comments robustly how “there are still parents who prefer to pay for a child’s education.”

Whether local families who cannot even afford to pay for books are meant to empathise with this viewpoint is unclear.


Update: thanks to Ceillog for spell-checking.