Simon cooper on the role whiteness plays at oxford. The chancellor and home secretary are all britons of color, he says. He doesn't think johnson particularly means well for the country but thinks res mulgan and anne probably do mean well in their own right. Simon also talks about how a tiny casst of obsevtories took over thek.
Across Britain, it’s no secret that the people who make up the country's elected government have gone through the same familiar educational pipeline. Eton, Oxford, Westminster. Born into families of privilege, it’s unsurprising that these men, and it is largely men, have risen to the top in a country obsessed with social class. But while it’s clear how they got there, we should ask how does this affect the way that they run the country today? To help answer these questions and understand the tiny world of the uber elite, Simon Kuper, FT columnist and author of Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK, joins us on the podcast. Our host for this episode is Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor for The Sunday Times.
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