More on the transformation of “this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England” into a modern technocracy:
- Labour opts for women-only shortlists for parliamentary candidates. Women don’t seem to be the same, but we’ll force them to be the same. Anything else would be irrational and we couldn’t stand it.
- British education chief wants to send 70 percent of all school-leavers to university. After all, people can’t function except to the extent they’re formally trained to do so.
- Still, it’s hard to keep the human factor out of things. If you try to turn people into a collection of interchangeable parts with no mutual connections, civic loyalty will disappear and officials will turn to EU-style nest-feathering.