The New Statesman
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Francis Charteris family story personifies all of the most enduring stereotypes about the British elite: a self-replicating caste singularly adept at keeping elite positions confined to a small pool of blue blood.
The British elite today is more than 80 per cent male, 96.8 per cent white and overwhelmingly concentrated in London .
It is around 35 per cent Oxbridge educated and 47 per cent privately educated.
The main achievement of Born to Rule is one of definition, not political description.
But such an approach neglects what is arguably the more revolutionary story of the British elite in this period.
The death of one sort of upper class has been followed by the birth of another.
We find ourselves with a cosmopolitan, credentialled elite, an MA aristocracy.
Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite is an important attempt to take the measure of our new and evolved elite.
Class has now returned to British politics, but class war is very difficult to wage.
The modern elite doesn’t exhibit itself with old boys’ ties, let alone horse and carriage.
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