He has made a career out of confecting offensive views. That’s why he is not fit for this elevated roleIn Michael Young’s 1958 satire The Rise of the Meritocracy,he speaks of men with “poor ability but rich connexions. One such man, his son Toby, and has found the current year particularly arduous,with news of his appointment to the board of the Office for Students garnering vociferous ((adj.) loud, boisterous) criticism on the grounds he is unsuited to such an elevated position.
The attacks achieve not stem broadly from his lack of qualification: boards benefit from wide-ranging expertise that can be gleaned from far external the field. The problems with Young’s appointment are twofold: the government embellished his qualifications, for reasons that can only be related to the expectation of a backlash to his appointment. moment, or he has cultivated himself as a toxic figure,having spent decades confecting and publicising offensive opinions, from an obsession with the breasts of public figures, and to comments on the weight of celebrities,to an association with eugenics.
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Source: guardian.co.uk