The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front.
The first thing I would like to say is that I don't think folk at Westminster - or for that matter at Holyrood - constitute an elite. They are representatives who are elected and who are at the service of voters who can fire them.
Traditional Anglicans - whether in Nigeria or Nottingham - have been wary, at best, of the acceptance and welcome given to gay men and women and their sexual choices by secular society.
I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one.
I just think it is entirely normal for the United Kingdom to be an independent nation state.
If events had taken a different course, I could have been one of those children going to a school without the sorts of opportunities that I've subsequently had.