Toby Young, in the House of Lords
Toby Young, a former pupil of Totnes Comprehensive (as it was ) has just taken his seat in the House of Lords.
Baron Young of Acton is the son of Michael Young – Lord Young of Dartington – and quite possibly the only peer to come from KEVICC.
I don’t remember him – he is a bit younger than me – but there may be readers of the Pulse who went to school with Toby?

The journalist and free speech campaigner – he founded the Free Speech Union in 2020 – was awarded a life peerage by Kemi Badenoch.
The school, a scamper through Wikipedia reveals, has a fair few notable alumni, including Guy Singh-Watson, musicians Ben Howard and much earlier Jimmy Cauty (KLF, burnt a million quid on film and did that Riot Tour art installation on Longmarsh a few years back).
Toby, a journalist who wrote a warts and all memoir about his time at Vanity Fair in America (very funny, I recall – in the film he was played by Simon Pegg) is now on an All Party Parliamentary Group set up to scrutinise new legislation.
Formed in October 2020 its purpose is to promote and protect freedom of speech.
It represents a cross party group of MPs and Peers who seek to ensure the concerns regarding the restrictions and limitations on freedom of speech across society, workplaces, educational institutions, and in political discourse are properly represented and explored across Parliament.
Young is an associate editor at right wing weekly The Spectator and revels in his status as a controversialist – once winning the Contrarian Prize (nominees have included Nigel Farage, George Galloway and also Benjamin Zephaniah and Peter Tatchell).
Now he’s on the red leather benches, his days as a comprehensive boy must seem far away.
Strange that this article fails to mention what a remarkable and benign person Toby Young”s father was…..in shocking contrast to what a nauseating personality his son Toby became.
( something about, apples sometimes falling a very long way away from the tree )