Drugs at Eton.(Brief Article)

If there is one man who has reason to be grateful that Prince Harry was caught smoking cannabis in a Gloucestershire pub last summer, it is John Lewis, Head Master of Eton. Had the offence taken place a few weeks later in a bar in downtown Slough, Mr Lewis would, under his own rules, have been compelled to undertake the embarrassing task of expelling from his school the third in line to the throne. While much attention this week has understandably been directed towards the habits of Prince Harry, a little more deserves to be paid to the behaviour of Eton and several other leading public schools, including Rugby: namely, just why do they persist with a `one strike and you're out' drugs policy which puts them so much at odds with the standards of …