MERITOCRACY
December 2013
John Major is wrong. Far from the current Conservative-led cabinet being overwhelmingly privately educated it is in fact the most representative in history
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December 2013
The former Prime Minister's recent attack on his own party was nothing more than an elder statesman's pre-emptive strike
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May 2012
'Two successful sharp cookies marry and bear sharp cookies: voilà, a self-sustaining upper class based not on historical injustice but merit'
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October 2011
The writer and former Tory minister and the political commentator discuss the genesis of the riots with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson
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