Nikhil Venkatesh
@nikvenkatesh.bsky.social
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The problem is that going to Oxford and knowing the right people is highly correlated with holding high office.

Most aspiring pols didn't study very hard and other unis offer similar courses.

Making this degree sound like some magical thing, good or ill, obscures the actual problem.
nikvenkatesh.bsky.social
At the risk of making a serious point in response to a joke: the Oxford PPE degree is not the cause of our problems, because it's not special. A lot of our ruling class did it because it's a big course, including politics at the most elite university, and because they meet each other there.
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If the government really wants to scrap degrees which deliver no value to the UK and indeed have led to £ billions in damage to the economy and culture of the UK then it just needs to scrap the Oxford PPE degree and arrest everyone who has taken it.
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politicalquarterly.bsky.social
There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.

@gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
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nikvenkatesh.bsky.social
And basically amateurs vs professionals, right? I'm crossing my fingers. Proper giant-killing stuff!
nikvenkatesh.bsky.social
If Pakistan women beat Australia is that the biggest shock in cricket ever?
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dandekadt.bsky.social
Nobel season is upon us so I am staying close to my phone so I can post without delay
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evansmithhist.bsky.social
When you make your point in the body of the paper, but come back for extra snark in the footnote
nikvenkatesh.bsky.social
Yeah every time I go back to the original texts I'm impressed by them
nikvenkatesh.bsky.social
Friends fear he is getting back into classical utilitarianism
Three books, seen standing with the spines towards us. They are Mill 'On Liberty and other writings', Bentham 'An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation', a d Bentham 'selected writings'
nikvenkatesh.bsky.social
Quantitative social theory is where you 'solve for' something, rather than solving it. Qualitative social theory is where you 'think' something rather than thinking about it.
nikvenkatesh.bsky.social
The post-pm career contrast to Brown is striking and may tell us something about who to credit with the good bits in office
nikvenkatesh.bsky.social
Not a Notts fan but loving the Haseeb Hameed redemption arc

www.espncricinfo.com/series/count...
nikvenkatesh.bsky.social
Exactly that has been argued in Jacobin recently ( go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h... ). But this disagreement might just be semantic: is the safety net part of "the economy" or not?
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