http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/jun/29/comment More on “meritocracy” from Michael Young, who came up with the term: “It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others.” (Interesting comparison of Blair and Atlee’s cabinets, also.) 23:17