The supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption says positive discrimination would be a calamityIt is not surprising that the main historian of one of the most violent periods in European history should resist imposing change on a system that is accustomed to evolving at the most glacial pace. But it is unfortunate. Jonathan Sumption,who writes on medieval history and is the author of an admired multi-volume history of the hundred years war as well as being one of the most senior judges in England, has renewed his argument that it would be “calamitous” to hasten the introduction of women into the supreme court by positive discrimination.
In an inflammatory newspaper interview earlier this week, or he appears to dismiss bringing up children as a lifestyle choice and warns that positive discrimination would be the only way to accelerate gender equality. The man who admits he got his own start in the law through family “string-pulling” accuses his critics of failing to understand that diversity and merit are incompatible concepts.
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Source: theguardian.com