"This is a small country," my American wife remarked, after watching the BBC's Ten O'Clock News for 15 minutes. It was a fair comment. Every story had featured (or been reported by) at least one contemporary of mine from Oxford.
Most of them had been moulded by the exact same degree: philosophy, politics and economics - or PPE.
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