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Posts Tagged: Meritocracy

Love Island’s Thatcherite contestant – and what her comments exposed about meritocracy in the 2020s

An influencer called Molly-Mae espoused conservative views on making it. There’s a reason why they didn’t go down well.

By Charlotte Gill | 13 February 2022

Daniel Hannan: Why is the West falling behind? Because we are abandoning meritocracy.

Our woke elites want to return to the pre-modern idea of group rights, collective identity and advancement by caste.

By Lord Hannan | 19 January 2022

Bim Afolami: Five books to read over the summer recess

Reading and reflection really helps me get a perspective on what is going on, whether in my own constituency or in the country more broadly.

By Bim Afolami MP | 9 August 2021

Peter Saunders: The myth of social immobility. Those who champion meritocracy are pursuing something we’ve basically already got.

The second of two pieces on ConHome this week on social mobility. How much does it matter and is it in decline?

By Peter Saunders | 6 May 2021

Interview: Goodhart says Johnson understands better than Starmer that a graduate meritocracy alienates manual workers

The author warns we are sending far too many people to university and creating “a whole great bloated cognitive bureaucratic class”.

By Andrew Gimson | 21 October 2020 | 57 comments

Dominic Raab: I want a fairer Britain, and a more democratic Conservative Party

By reforming our Party to grow and become more engaged with its members, we will become an even stronger force for good.

By Dominic Raab MP | 11 June 2019 | 58 comments

Virginia Crosbie: Mentoring is a very Conservative way to change someone’s life

Make your skills, experience, and contacts available to a disadvantaged young adult.

By Virginia Crosbie | 26 January 2019 | 13 comments

Paul Maginnis: My manifesto for boosting social mobility

It has fascinated me since growing up in a single parent family on the outskirts of Belfast – before attending the lowest-performing secondary school in Northern Ireland.

By Paul Maginnis | 28 April 2018 | 44 comments

Catherine Anderson: Our Party should adopt candidate gender quotas, whether the Colonel Blimps like it or not

Simply pointing to our two female Prime Ministers does not deliver true meritocracy or equal representation.

By Catherine Anderson | 15 January 2018 | 156 comments

Profile: Sajid Javid, a man who as party leader could transform how people see the Tories

Ever since his days as a Thatcherite firebrand at Exeter University, this Tory of Asian descent has believed in a tough, meritocratic conservatism.

By Andrew Gimson | 25 March 2015 | 27 comments

Sunder Katwala: The Conservatives are breaking Labour’s monopoly on ethnic diversity in Parliament

For the first time ever, the race to increase ethnic minority representation is neck-and-neck between the two main parties.

By Sunder Katwala | 24 March 2015 | 7 comments

The worst fault of the Westminster elite is that it is not elitist enough

Demagogic attacks by UKIP and the SNP on the Conservatives and Labour are inspired by an unacknowledged and unrealistic egalitarianism.

By Andrew Gimson | 25 September 2014 | 66 comments

Interview: Fox propounds his points-based immigration policy – and agrees it would mean a fall in family migration

The former Defence Secretary gives his view on quitting the EU, its appeasement of Putin, and the reshuffle – “what’s done is done”.

By Andrew Gimson | 23 July 2014 | 28 comments

Dominic Raab MP: It’s time to bin this equalities red tape

The Coalition should junk this Harman legacy legislation and make the positive case for a meritocratic vision of fairness.

By Paul Goodman | 23 July 2014 | 20 comments

Jaber Jabbour: Is it racist to give Europeans open-door immigration rights?

Britain’s immigration system should be based on migrants’ merit, not their nationality.

By Jaber Jabbour | 5 June 2014 | 49 comments

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