Eagle-eyed Philanthropisms superfans will note this episode is out a week earlier than scheduled.

(Because I'm on holiday next week but the thought of depriving you of the opportunity to hear me bang on about philanthropy again was too awful to contemplate, so I pulled this one forward. De nada).

We explore some of the questions this raises, as well as the wider historical context behind the idea of perpetuity for endowments (and why it has long attracted criticism).

Good point. Although this was in a secondary school for boys in Bath in 1993, so I'm gonna say that the balance of probabilities wasn't great.

There's probably an important lesson in there about our post-shame political culture, or something.