In a recent episode of The Rest Is Politics, the well known podcaster and former politican Rory Stewart described me as a "pseudoeconomist", on the alleged and incorrect basis of me not having any post-graduate degrees.
I do, in fact, have a two-year Economics Masters degree from Rory Stewart's own Alma Mater, Oxford University.
In all honesty, this was a sad moment for me. I have enjoyed Rory's work for quite some time, and hoped him to be a well-researched and honest man. It has been disappointing to find that that is not always true. As someone who himself received a professorship at Harvard, seemingly without any postgraduate degrees, on the basis of his achievements in his professional career, I would also have hoped that Rory could have understood that achievements in the workplace can often be as educational, if not more educational, than achievements within academia.
I hope that this was merely a case of a rare mistake of bad researching, and I expect Rory Stewart to do the honest thing - publicly own up to his mistake and correct the record.
The life of a high-achieving working class person in elite spaces is to be constantly accused of not having really done the things which you have done. This has happened to me so many times in my life, that I have come to expect it from polite British society.
But I did not expect it from Rory Stewart.
Be better Rory. Apologise and correct the record publicly.
Garys Economics
In a recent episode of The Rest Is Politics, the well known podcaster and former politican Rory Stewart described me as a "pseudoeconomist", on the alleged and incorrect basis of me not having any post-graduate degrees.
I do, in fact, have a two-year Economics Masters degree from Rory Stewart's own Alma Mater, Oxford University.
In all honesty, this was a sad moment for me. I have enjoyed Rory's work for quite some time, and hoped him to be a well-researched and honest man. It has been disappointing to find that that is not always true. As someone who himself received a professorship at Harvard, seemingly without any postgraduate degrees, on the basis of his achievements in his professional career, I would also have hoped that Rory could have understood that achievements in the workplace can often be as educational, if not more educational, than achievements within academia.
I hope that this was merely a case of a rare mistake of bad researching, and I expect Rory Stewart to do the honest thing - publicly own up to his mistake and correct the record.
The life of a high-achieving working class person in elite spaces is to be constantly accused of not having really done the things which you have done. This has happened to me so many times in my life, that I have come to expect it from polite British society.
But I did not expect it from Rory Stewart.
Be better Rory. Apologise and correct the record publicly.
I'll be waiting.
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