Is social mobility really a myth?
from RSA Conversations Hosted by Matthew Taylor, Selina Todd
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Selina Todd is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. She joins Matthew to argue that there's no such things as social mobility in the UK, and that a powerful elite cling to power by blocking others from climbing the ladder.
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