Tristram Hunt, one-time media candidate for Labour’s leadership, has claimed that Oxbridge students in the Labour Party – the “top 1%” – should take the lead in fomenting “creative dissent”. He writes: “You are the top one per cent. The Labour Party is in the shit. It is your job and your responsibility to take […]
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There has been quite a lot of debate recently about how the British political class is dominated by Oxbridge. And I read quite often – especially on Twitter – comments along the lines of “If Cameron has a first in PPE at Oxford, how come he’s so ignorant about …” or “If Cameron got a […]
David Cameron takes a pop at what he describes as failing middle class schools in a piece in today’s Daily Telegraph. As ever with Cameron, it’s short on evidence, long on prejudice – has there ever been a Government which is less concerned about backing its assertions with hard facts? – and it’s always amusing […]
Andrew Neil’s BBC film about how politics in Britain has increasingly become a preserve of privately-educated privileged examined a real and important phenomenon. He argued that for a brief period front-line Westminster politics, and hence government, had been opened up to a meritocracy drawing on a much wider range of social backgrounds, but now the […]
Notes from a Broken Society 