Pardon the dorky heading. My guest on the latest Q&A is Toby Young, the British journalist. More than a journalist, he is a personality, an adornment to society. For example, he was a judge on Top Chef, and has been a restaurant critic.
More than that, he is one of the foremost education reformers in Britain, the co-founder of several “free schools” (charter schools, in Americanese).
His father, Michael Young, was a prominent academic and politician, a member of the House of Lords, who coined a term used in everyday life: meritocracy. He did not mean the term favorably, even if most people now do.
In this podcast, I talk with Toby about British politics: Corbyn ’n’ Cameron. We also talk about education, and Boris Johnson, and food, and meritocracy, and other interesting things. What’s in the water in Britain? I don’t know, but man can they talk, and Toby Young is especially good at it. A delight to read and to listen to.
P.S. In Caddyshack, Rodney is impatient with someone and says, “While we’re young!”