It isn’t social class, but political class. And by the way, the grip of Eton and the public schools on the Tories is getting weaker, not stronger.
Last month, a woman by the name of Susan Patton wrote a letter to the Daily Princetonian advising female undergraduates to use their time at university to find a suitable husband: “Simply put, there is a very limited population of men who are as smart or smarter than we are… you will never again be […]
Anti-Semitism has been called the oldest hatred. In its long and dark history, it has taken many forms – tribal hatred, religious hatred, racial hatred and national hatred. In a book review for Tablet, Adam Kirsch looks at a new historical account, which suggests that an age-old intellectual hatred had its part to play too: […]
Politicians refuse to acknowledge that, in a meritocratic society, average ability levels will come to differ between children born into different social classes.