People of my social background (upper middle class, public school) dominate every economic sector except those - such as sport and hard science - in which only raw ability counts. Through networking, confidence, unpaid internships, most importantly through our attendance at the top universities, we run the media, politics, the civil service, the arts, the City, law, medicine, big business, the armed forces, even, in many cases, the protest movements challenging these powers. The Milburn report, published last year, shows that 45% of top civil servants, 53% of top journalists, 32% of MPs, 70% of finance directors and 75% of judges come from the 7% of the population who went to private schools (6). Even the beneficiaries should be able to see that this system is grotesque, invidious and socially destructive. (6. The Panel on Fair Access to the Professions, 2009.Unleashing Aspiration. Figure 1f, p18.I'm not sure his solution would work even if you could prevail upon the universities to adopt such a selection process though the idea of screwing, at a stroke, the ability of the pluted bloatocrats to purchase advantages for their saucepans at the very real disadvantage of others would be welcome.
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/227102/fair-access.pdf)
And now a link for Gideon. See what you missed, poor wee thing!
And of course the common people and their place in the great order of things
