A new term begins and for those of us committed to sending our darlings to independent schools, it's back to scrimping, saving and making do.

I didn't go to Oxbridge. I went to the London College of Printing, a concrete mausoleum. Fast-forward 25 years, and I was invited to the Cambridge Union to take part in a debate.

To the outside world I'm cool, calm and collected, immaculately dressed and perfectly coiffed at all times.

A new term begins and for those of us committed to sending our darlings to independent schools, it's back to scrimping, saving and making do.

When 42-year-old French lawyer Tiphaine Auziere uploaded some holiday snaps of her boyfriend to her social media pages recently, she probably had no idea of the fuss it would…