Andrew Neil
4. February 2011 | 00:58Andrew Neil is right
It’s time to break open the political class. Andrew Neil’s recent television programme Posh and Posher - Why Public School Boys Run Britain was long overdue. Neil’s views are a long way from mine, but his points about meritocracy - and the lack of it in British public life - are entirely valid. (News Source: The New Statesman - 18:48:50)
Never have our politicians been posher, or more prolier-than-thou
In these Darwinian days, it is the public schools that are producing the ruthless meritocrats, writes Charles Moore. (News Source: Daily Telegraph - 17:45:05)
Andrew Neil: Resignations of Alan Johnson and Andy Coulson spell bad news for political high-flyers from ordinary …
THE resignations of Alan Johnson and Andy Coulson spell bad news for an endangered species… political high-flyers from ordinary backgrounds. (News Source: Daily Mirror - 09:58:23)
Gin the tonic for Greytown duo
Success: Andrew Wright and distiller Neil Catherall, makers of Greytown’s Lighthouse gin. The company has increased its sales in the 18 months since its creation and is now exporting to Australia. (News Source: Wairarapa Times-Age - 23:14:34)
Scandals depress Rupert Murdoch
A ‘deeply depressed’ Rupert Murdoch fears the bad press surrounding the phone-hacking and sexism scandals. (News Source: BigPond News - 19:29:48)
Murdoch depressed about scandals
Rupert Murdoch is worried the phone-hacking and sexism scandals will plague his bid for Bskyb. (News Source: Sky News Australia - 22:18:44)
Murdoch depressed about scandals
Rupert Murdoch is worried the phone-hacking and sexism scandals at his operations will affect his chances of taking full control of BSkyB. (News Source: Brisbane Times - 18:52:00)
Murdoch ‘deeply depressed’ by scandals
A “deeply depressed” Rupert Murdoch fears the bad press surrounding the phone-hacking and sexism scandals at his operations have rocked his chances of taking full control of BSkyB. (News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation - 23:49:04)
Terence Blacker: The upstairs, downstairs society
Pin-striped and in a chauffeur-driven car, Andrew Neil has been driving around Britain in search of privilege. In this week’s BBC documentary Posh And Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain, he argued that, after a couple of decades of relative classlessness, meritocratic Britain is pretty much dead. It was the closing of grammar schools which caused the problem. (News Source: Independent - 00:13:00)
Hackings, sackings and scandal - no wonder Rupert Murdoch’s ‘depressed’
Rupert Murdoch is ‘deeply depressed’ about the phone-hacking and Sky Sports sexism scandals and is worried they will scupper his £8 billion BSkyB takeover, it is claimed today. (News Source: Evening Standard - 12:43:03)
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