There's a sort of unseriousness at the heart of this world, says Lord Tebbit. There are people who graduate from my generation that i don't think you could reasonably characterized as being unserious. I would say that oxford encourages unseriousness. The upbringing of the tough caste encourages a kind of insustience,. nothing very bad can happen, especially not to our cast, not so much to our country. Politics can be agame.
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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