Top of British society is a racket for the privileged Only 7% in Britain are privately educated, and yet this section of society makes up 71% of senior judges, 62% of the senior armed forces and 55% of permanent secretaries. It is quite something when the cabinet of millionaires is one of the less unrepresentative pillars of power, with 36% hailing from private schools. The statistics should provoke Britains media into a prolonged period of self-reflection. They probably wont since 54% of the top 100 media professionals went to private schools, and just 16% attended a comprehensive school – in a country where 88% attend non-selective state schools. Forty-three percent of newspaper columnists had parents rich enough to send them to fee-paying schools. theguardian/society/2014/aug/28/british-society-elitism-privileged-owen-jones
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:14:06 +0000
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