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@James1822
There was a recent report by Alan Milburn (no bleeding heart lefty, more of a 3rd way centrist) showing that the professions like law, medicine, architecture etc have become narrower in their recruitment in the last 30 years. The idea that we are more equal than we have ever been, or that some how kids from council estates have equality of opportunity to go to oxbridge as those from private schools living in Chelsea is completely wrong. I studied Law, and recently spoke to a friend who is now doing his bar course. Like me he went to a comprehensive, but he says he now feels totally alien to those in his class who have come from a background that is so totally different. The working class students at oxbridge are really the exception to the rule, and unfortunately the culture at the very top unis is geared towards a smooth transition from posh private school to oxbridge college.