M. Grégoire#MichaelGove on what to study at university:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dELEAp1b3xo&si=QGkeoihAEYeWhEvB&t=1884s
Not a fan of PPE.
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Claire McNabAndy #Burnham will be the 19th UK Prime Minister since 1940, & the 1st #Cambridge grad of the 19.
Since 1940, 14 of 18 PMs went to Oxford, 1 (Brown) to Edinburgh. 3 (Churchill, Callaghan, & Major), didn’t do university.
In all, Cambridge has produced 14 PMs against Oxford’s 31. But for 85 years, Oxford has dominated.
#Andy brands himself as a northerner. But in Westminster & Whitehall, the #Cantab label will be much more defining.
#Oxbridge still rules. 🤮
Graphic from #TheSpectator.
Steve Woods@ChrisMayLA6 France has the École Nationale d'Aministration.
The Untied Kingdom mostly has #Oxbridge dilettantes.
@MiaMarkTwo He's another #Oxbridge PPE graduate according to his Wikipedia entry.
No further comment necessary.
From what I'm reading, the top tier of British politics will continue to be dominated by useless #Oxbridge PPE graduates even after Burnham's forthcoming coronation.
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China celebrates Dragon Boat Festival with nationwide races as robots join 2,000-year-old holiday
@JackTheCat Streeting is another one like Blair: #Oxbridge education, yet unable to tell the difference between left and right, plus right from wrong.
Jonathan Emmesedihttps://literaryreview.co.uk/pass-the-cherries
I'd like to read this, as it would help me better understand how Thatcherism poisoned the culture of the UK.
Unlike the reviewer, I do think that a switch in dons' priorities from royal commissions and the BBC to spinning out companies and podcasting signifies not just a change but a decline. That "the continued investment of at least some dons in political life" is illustrated by the involvement of Cambridge authoritarian right theologian James Orr in Reform UK shows how steep this decline has been.
#UKCulture #History #IntellectualHistory #Universities #Oxbridge #ColinKidd #TwilightOfTheDons
Gary Hall3/4 It is a system of ‘top #universities and #careers' that is nevertheless understood as being pretty much the natural state of things, requiring only a few adjustments.
If that’s the framework, then the outcome of any social mobility is predictable. As this #podcast demonstrates, the same upper- and middle-class (and, yes, affluent, #liberal London-centric) ideas and assumptions will continue to dominate. There’ll just be a few more (ideally #Oxbridge- and Russell Group-educated) working-class people from the regions involved in creating, disseminating and benefiting from them, as this podcast also demonstrates – although there’ll never be enough of them to make things anywhere near equal.
There’s also something pernicious about the claim here that changes in social mobility are not brought about because of political decisions so much as driven by #war and changes in #technology – #AI being just the latest.
Charming Malcontentoh dear, smirking shit #ScottJennings, yet another #TrumpBrownNoser employed by the laughable #CNN, literally losses his shit on air.
What a pathetic dickless cuck, #MAGAts are such uppity little pussies
Hey CNN, just give up?
#MarkThompson, fuck off back to the UK you failed #BBC #OxBridge wanker?
