Far from being classless, Britain is inceasingly ruled by oligarchies of professional egalitarians. By exploiting popular sentiment and taste, the privileged and opportunistic can earn fortunes and occupy positions of authority, while all the time protesting that they are only giving the public what they want. In this text, Gerge Walden unmasks the new elites, a class whose ambitions for social control rival their aristocratic forbears and whose populum is in its own way as damaging to democracy.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 128 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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978-0-14-028222-1 (9780140282221)
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George Walden was Private Secretary to David Owen and Lord Carrington at the Foreign Office, before embarking on a second career as MP for Buckingham and government minister. His memoirs, LUCKY GEORGE, were published to great acclaim and controversy in 1999.
In search of the elites; the misunderstood masses; a populist oligarchy; the fine English art of condescension; a culture of pretence; pop politics; pop media; unsentimental education; late thoughts.
