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Bluffocracy (Hardcover)
James Ball, Andrew Greenway
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Britain is run by people who are bluffing. At the top of our
government, our media, the civil service and business sit men -
it's usually men - whose core skill is talking fast, writing well,
and endeavouring to imbue the purest wind with substance. They know
a little bit about everything, and an awful lot about nothing. We
know because we've seen them - and we've been those men. We live in
a country where George Osborne can become a newspaper editor
despite never working in news, squeezing it in alongside five other
jobs; where a columnist can go from calling a foreign head of state
a wanker to being Foreign Secretary in six months; where the
minister who holds on to his job for eighteen months has more
experience on the job than the supposedly permanent senior civil
servants. The UK establishment has signed up to the cult of winging
it, of pretending to hold all the aces when you actually hold a
pair of twos. It prizes `transferable skills', rewarding the
general over the specific - and yet across the country we struggle
to hire doctors, engineers, coders and more. This book chronicles
how the UK became hooked on bluffing, how it became what we teach,
what we promote, and the rules of a game that we all feel the
consequences of - and why we have to stop it.
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