Xainth: State school children are taught that Santa brings presents for good kids and effort yields achievement, voting is effective and justice is blind. I wonder (not having partaken) how the private school history curriculum differs in arming our oligarchs' beneficiaries to thrive in the world as it is.

Timid measures of the kind Labour proposes won't stop the rise of a new oligarchy. Instead we need a political and economic programme of the kind that General MacArthur oversaw in Japan. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Things are not going to get better as long as oligarchs rule the roost in our democracies | George Monbiotwww.theguardian.com If we want the kind of fair, functioning state Britain saw post-1945, we need to take on the economic powers that wrecked it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The lessons from history I discuss are hard and unpalatable. But unless we learn from them, the arc of the moral universe will keep bending towards injustice. The default state of political systems is oligarchy, and fierce resistance is needed to arrest its resurgence.

State school children are taught that Santa brings presents for good kids and effort yields achievement, voting is effective and justice is blind. I wonder (not having partaken) how the private school history curriculum differs in arming our oligarchs' beneficiaries to thrive in the world as it is.

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