The Long Read: An extraordinary number of Britain’s elite studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford. But does it produce an out-of-touch ruling class?
Politicians in a democracy are supposed to be representatives of the electorate, as such there is no “qualification” needed, nor should there be. That there is such an academic pathway, and from a single institution, is fundamentally anathema to representative democracy.
Politicians in a democracy are supposed to be representatives of the electorate, as such there is no “qualification” needed, nor should there be. That there is such an academic pathway, and from a single institution, is fundamentally anathema to representative democracy.