Why 1980s Oxford holds the key to Britain’s ruling class

 Every country produces its own elites, but in today’s western world possibly only France, where the École Nationale d’Administration educated four of the last six presidents, has a ruling caste as small as the UK’s. (And France recently abolished the ENA and replaced it with the Institut National du Service Public.)

 “To understand the man, you have to know what was happening in the world when he was 20.”

Simon Kuper 14 April 2022

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