{"id":49667,"date":"2015-05-03T21:29:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T21:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc-why_does_ppe_a_degree_in_politics_philosophy_and_economics_at_the_u_of_\/"},"modified":"2015-05-03T21:29:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T21:29:15","slug":"bbc-why_does_ppe_a_degree_in_politics_philosophy_and_economics_at_the_u_of_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49667","title":{"rendered":"BBC-Why does PPE [a degree in politics, philosophy and economics at the U of Oxford] rule Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the corridors of power, at the very highest reaches of government, a form of educational freemasonry holds sway.<\/p>\n<p>It has nothing to do with Eton College, nor even the Bullingdon Club &#8211; both far more commonly-cited lightning rods for resentments about class, privilege and the fast track to power.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the surest ticket to the top &#8211; for Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem politicians alike &#8211; is surely a degree in politics, philosophy and economics (PPE) at the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-11136511\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the corridors of power, at the very highest reaches of government, a form of educational freemasonry holds sway. It has nothing to do with Eton College, nor even the Bullingdon Club &#8211; both far more commonly-cited lightning rods for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49667\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,175,101,111,199,168,98,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-children","category-education","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}