social mobility
Relative merits
Meritocracy, a word coined by my father, gets a bad press these days. Two recent books — The Meritocracy Trap…
Purge of the posh
Should employees be judged by their parents’ income?
I told you so: the UK electricity gap looms wider than ever
Amid all the turmoil in global energy markets, we should not lose sight of the UK power programme that we’re…
Don’t act white, act migrant
Black British boys are being held back by fear of betraying their background. Immigrant children know how to deal with that
The best way to end the ‘poshness test’
There’s a warning buried in the detail of the new report by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission on…
Long life
I went last week to see the justly praised production of Wagner’s The Mastersingers at English National Opera, and I…
Let posh people run the arts – if it means they stop running the country
What should we do with James Blunt? This is what I have been asking myself. And I am not looking…
Uni’s out
Why being a graduate is about to lose its prestige
A ladder for everyone
Justine Greening says that the Conservatives will not win big until they really home in on social mobility
Letters
IQ and social mobility Sir: It seems not to have occurred to our leaders that ability is not evenly distributed…
