Professors Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves of the London School of Economics, authors of Born to Rule – a forensic, often very funny X‑ray of the British establishment, drawn from that venerable directory of importance, Who’s Who. They’ve tracked thousands of the people who matter to discover who really holds power, how they got it, and why they’d rather you thought they were “just ordinary”.
We talk about the “elite within the elite” (how many do you reckon there are?); the three factions inside the elite who “are contesting what Britain should look like” – and how that’s shifting; the importance of being “meritocratically legitimate”; and how the privately educated Nigel Farage manages to pull it off.
Please do check out my latest book, A Dead Cat On Your Table – available online and in all good book shops.
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