Oxbridge

Or the Ivy League.

Or Oxbridge.

Or like a major.

Like law.

Now, there are some deadlines, obviously the same as you.

So if you're applying for Oxford or Cambridge or Oxbridge, as they call it, or you are applying for medicine, dentistry.

Pink Pharmacy, you have to have applied by the 15th of October.

That's the first deadline.

I mean, Give you an example.

I went through the Oxbridge system.

In the Oxbridge system, if you write an essay, here's the scoring system.

The scoring system is you can get a first, like an A, a two one is a B, and a two two is a C, right? And so I'll say A, B, C, because it's not what we call it, and I'll say A, B, C.

Okay, so if you want to get a C, Say I ask you a question, and the question is in the essay, it's what's better, communism or capitalism? If you want to get a C, maybe say, well, the best is communism, or indeed the best is capitalism.

Brainpower, basically.

A load of really, really smart Oxbridge types with decades of institutional memory, i.e. the McKinsey way or the Bain way or the Oliver Wyman playbook or whatever it might be.

We sell that.

And we sell that in the form of advice.

in terms of the subset then of IT or technology transformation in an organization, would it not make more sense for Accenture to pivot more to regs and just focus on that? Because I can't imagine Anthropic has a lot of interest or time or motivation.

It's kind of like, look, I'd rather, I'd rather...

The Oxbridge person talked to the other Oxbridge policy setter person and utilized the network of which those humans possess by definition of who they are and where they sit in society and all the rest of it.

The pyramid again of power and influence.

I remember, Nandita, you did three years ago.

What the data is showing is that folks from elite institutions, elite academic institutions such as IIT, IIM, overseas places such as the US Ivy League or Oxbridge, these sorts of people are increasingly infrequent now in India's boardrooms.

India's boardrooms are now basically occupied or a majority occupied.

India's boardrooms are now majority occupied by the local Desi college

And I think there's certain parallels here.

What they kind of suggested particularly to do with education and profession and routes into the elites was that we're no longer thinking of pure kind of Oxbridge students and private schools in the kind of way we might have done 50 years, 100 years ago.

So access has widened, but, and they make this really kind of important caveat, only marginally.

So my argument in the book and the data that I present early on in the book suggests a couple of things then.

The House of Lords, based on the research that I was able to find for those available peers, 48% have been through private education compared to a UK average of about 7%.

A quarter of those privately educated went to the top Clarendon schools, and not everyone's heard, particularly outside of the UK, will have heard of the Clarendon schools, but think Eton, think Harrow, those top nine schools.

And third factoid, 29% of the lords on average have been through Oxbridge, Oxford or Cambridge, compared to a UK average of about 1%.

So if I then focus in on the assetocracy itself, I think the picture that we start to see and bear in mind, again, vast majority of these people were appointed post 2010.

Now, in a sense, now it's interesting, the intellectuals are now defining the Jewish people as white.

in Colombia at the Ivy Leagues and Oxbridge.

And the tragedy is, it's not that we're being labeled white, welcome to the club, and we're so terribly sorry for the racist antisemitism that led to the extermination of over six million Jews and the destruction, essentially, of European Jewry.

No.