Interesting discussion on Newsnight this evening about the moral state of the Establishment.
Disappointed that no-one defined the Establishment - there was just an assumption that it is a collective entity made up of individual institutions.
Owen Jones dominated the discussion and made all the running, although Anne Atkins expertly corrected him on the Victorians as reformers rather than exploiters.
Neil Hamilton, appearing like a caricature roue, called Owen Jones a spartacist.
A banker (whose name I didn't catch) made conciliatory noises without really saying anything. He mentioned the origin of Cadbury's as the caring face of capitalism, but failed to point out that globalised capitalism has trashed Cadbury's and asset-stripped the company. And I think he was right to mention unbridled globalisation as a source of moral corruption but he did not develop the idea.
But the discussion needed at least an hour, not just twelve minutes or so.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kn957
Disappointed that no-one defined the Establishment - there was just an assumption that it is a collective entity made up of individual institutions.
Owen Jones dominated the discussion and made all the running, although Anne Atkins expertly corrected him on the Victorians as reformers rather than exploiters.
Neil Hamilton, appearing like a caricature roue, called Owen Jones a spartacist.
A banker (whose name I didn't catch) made conciliatory noises without really saying anything. He mentioned the origin of Cadbury's as the caring face of capitalism, but failed to point out that globalised capitalism has trashed Cadbury's and asset-stripped the company. And I think he was right to mention unbridled globalisation as a source of moral corruption but he did not develop the idea.
But the discussion needed at least an hour, not just twelve minutes or so.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kn957
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