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Stefan Collini: Aspiration etc…, 8 April 2010
Unleashing Aspiration: The Final Report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions
Cabinet Office, 167 pp., July 2009Show More
Cabinet Office, 167 pp., July 2009Show More
British Social Attitudes: The 26th Report
National Centre for Social Research, 294 pp., £50, January 2010,978 1 84920 387 6 Show More
National Centre for Social Research, 294 pp., £50, January 2010,
An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK: Report of the National Equality Panel
Government Equalities Office, 457 pp., January 2010Show More
Government Equalities Office, 457 pp., January 2010Show More
“... Historians have a taste for labels that capture the character or spirit of a period – The Bleak Age, The Age of Equipoise or, in a recent work on the interwar period, The Morbid Age. It will serve early 21st-century Britain right if it becomes known as ‘The Aspirational Age’. To those who can use the word ‘aspirational’ without wincing, this might seem high praise ... ”