I am amazed that an excellent generalist like yourself would suggest that the way to improving things is to shut up about important things. I think that to improve britton, you have to expose not just the roll of oxford, but also the kind of the myth of oxford. And what i've wanted to do in the book is de mystify oxford and say, lok, you might think these people there, there, their rhetoric is a sign of brilliant minds. No, it's a sign of having learned rhetoric. We really need to find a different way. Our country is run by a group of people selected at the age of 17 18, in some cases, selected
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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