Talk:Rhodes Scholar

Wow! I've just had a look at the Scholarship Board, and what they are/have been. There’s a Conservative Politician. The Australian boss of News Ltd. A British senior bureaucrat (under both sides). The Queen’s Private Secretary (who’s a financier.) A former diplomat and Dep. Chair of Shell Oil. A boss of De Beers and Anglo American. An IT expert and administrator. And 3 professors. (Three! That’s a worry. We know all about professors – even if they work at the Bank of England)

That is not a group of loony liberals! And to pick one liberal – out of the 80-odd recipients a year - as an example of some sort of trend seems to me to be reaching a little. Academia – like the arts - tends to have a greater share of what you would call “liberals” than most walks of life (for whatever reason) but to insert “conservative bias” into an article where it is not particularly necessary seems to me to be a little gratuitous.

(I have just started thinking about an article on Tchaikovsky – should I spend half of it talking about his homosexuality?) AlanE 15:42, 7 September 2008 (EDT)