It's not even a hierarchy of real virtue; it's a hierarchy of false virtue which is really self serving.

Imagine an outsider now getting employment at the BBC on ability.

Perhaps we can all agree that, since 1945, Britain has hardly scaled the heights. On virtually every indicator, we have one of the most abysmal, sclerotic school systems anywhere. Europe, China, Asia, make us look remedial.

I can assure you the fighter pilot business was merit based. The alternative is a smoking hole in the ground.

We have a stick insect as prime minister and a hawk faced turtle as chancellor. They control a pit of snakes with a few rabbits thrown in. Nature and natural selection favour meritocracy.

I work in recruitment in the engineering sector, HR talk about DIE but the realisation hits when we can’t find female civil engineers

Keep exposing the dross. Thank you.

Spain ignores the talented.

Always good to see PH.

'the old system of meritocracy' ended when they invented GCSE coursework.

Hitchens (Eeyore)... "Moan. Complain. Nobody cares about me. Things ain't what they used to be. What's the point? Doom and gloom. No one listens to me. I've been saying this for years..." 💤💤💤💤

Unfortunately Hitchins is right, but we can't just lie back and get completely rolled over

Race has been thrown into this equation because in the UK we have allowed uncontrolled immigration that has in turn allowed separate societies to form. I'm in favour of immigration as long as the immigrants accept the society they come into. Sadly, that's not happening.

Equity is a weird woke concept. All things can never be equal, some people are smarter, some better looking etc. Should we have equity in music so someone who cannot play violin be in the orchestra for equity sake.

I studied Photography at LCP in 1986 and I was subjected to "Woke" radical feminist ideas from tutors who had studied at the Polytechnic of Central London under the tutelage of Victor Burgin and were heavily influenced by his book "Thinking Photography".The "Woke" in the Universities in the U.K I suspect are the children of the generation I attended college with.The visual Arts and "Media studies" ( terrible term) is saturated with "Woke" ideas.

Yay nihilists are our judges of value! What can go wrong?

good segment... enjoyed mediator and both experts

There is something immensely cute about that woman. I can’t explain it but she’s adorable

First time I've heard the Brexit vote described in any real way. Adrian Wooldridge states that it was a vote of anger, I and many who voted with me to leave were making a 'protest vote' against the poverty trap. Not as has been described by the remainers a racist vote demanding all people of colour to leave our country!!

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