I'm part of the privileged group with many of the same flaws that i describe in the book. I went into view where academics weres to me, what do you mean by that? And this is what i've been used to from dinner table conversation since i was a child. My pulse has been much less spectacular, much more modest, much less powerful an successful but it's a kind of miny version of that, to my shame. Ad, i diwell to oxforand i ill so now that you it is not memoir, you say that at the outset there are sort of, nevertheless, ashes of your time there.
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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