The Oxbridge Conspiracy
by Walter Ellis
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Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780140231397
ISBN: 0140231390
Label: Penguin Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 1995-09-28
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Studio: Penguin Books Ltd
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Summary: Petulant and subjective
Comment: This book could have been a valuable expose of the persistent dominance of the Oxbridge old boys' (and girls') network in British public life. Unfortunately, it is so subjective, and so dominated by a tone of personal grievance and self-pity, that even Ellis's valid criticisms don't invite much sympathy. And they certainly should; one Oxbridge graduate reviewed the book under the headline, "One of Them gets uppity about all of Us".
Ellis is resentful that he didn't manage to get his journalistic foot in the door of Fleet Street, and blames his status as an "outsider"; but if this book is any index of his journalistic style, his handicaps may rather have been, frankly, journalistic: he can't distance himself from his subject matter, and he gets his facts wrong. For example, at one point he insists that novelists usually need to have been to Oxbridge to succeed - suggesting he hasn't heard of Kazuo Ishiguro, Beryl Bainbridge, David Lodge, Graham Swift or Ian McEwan.
We all know how smug Oxbridge graduates can be; but in reality, Oxford and Cambridge _don't_ hold the grip that they used to, and Britain today is more of a meritocracy than Ellis would have us believe. Besides, if the superior education Oxford and Cambridge provide is any kind of bulwark against the tide of philistinism that threatens to drown the cultural life of Britain in a soup of docusoaps, Big Brother headlines and polyphonic ring tone charts, I'm all for its continuation.
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