Meritocracy vs Mediocracy
In aiming to be a meritocracy, we inevitably create a parallel 'mediocracy' – where the meritless club together against the meritorious, says Prof James Alexander. This is the key to understanding our politics.
In aiming to be a meritocracy, we inevitably create a parallel 'mediocracy' – where the meritless club together against the meritorious, says Prof James Alexander. This is the key to understanding our politics.
A diversity row has erupted at the U.K.'s national AI institute after 180 staff signed a letter questioning the "inclusivity" of the appointment of four male senior scientists.
"So when should we expect to see short Asian women in the NBA?": Elon Musk pwned US billionaire Mark Cuban this week when the former freethinker and now pusher of woke orthodoxy claimed that "diversity helps businesses".
Last week Queensland University of Technology announced that it was removing all references to ‘merit’ from its hiring policy. It's symptomatic of a decaying West, says Dr James Allan.
The Welsh Government is to redefine women to include self-identifying transgender 'women' under planned new laws.
Why did anyone think that Sharon White, a career civil servant, was the right person to lead John Lewis? Did they have something other than the best person for the job in mind?
John Tierney has written a terrific piece for City Journal puncturing the myth of male privilege. By almost every metric, he points out, women in contemporary western societies are faring better than men.
Why is Western civilisation suddenly in crisis? Politics professor Dr James Alexander sets out the reasons, from the decline of Christianity to the rise of identity politics.
American educated elites have turned against meritocracy in their claims of 'systemic racism'. But, ironically, in doing so they 'justify' their own privileges by signalling their moral superiority over the hoi polloi.
The new 'progressive' elite is waging war on meritocracy as being supposedly 'white' and 'racist' and is pushing quotas and race-based selection in its place, writes Adrian Wooldridge.
