Bath is essentially a science university with a strong eye to ensuring as many Bath graduates as possible make good money in their chosen discipline. It's astonishingly effective in this respect, with an enviable reputation for graduate destinations and salaries.<\/p>\n
Consistent with this Bath students, like many students although this seems too rarely reported,\u00a0seem broadly Conservative<\/a>\u00a0(footnote) Another too-rarely mentioned thing, at least in the media, is that authentic conservatism is radical: It seeks to conserve the demonstrable good while ensuring weakening ideas and models give way to stronger ones. In theory, anyway.<\/p>\n But whatever, there's a lot of value judgements made along the way. That seems for the good since that's what gives us intellectual vibrancy. No? So on that note, here's<\/a> a fairly recent Spectator podcast about 'new eugenics'.<\/p>\n In it, The Spectator's associate editor, Toby Young, argues for the less well-off to be given NHS-funded genetic-editing assistance to produce cleverer offspring. Fraser Nelson, his editor, on the other hand takes a very different line. It feels like Nelson's is the Conservative one.<\/p>\n Young's implied idea, though, seems plausible. Society seems to be trending towards atomising individualism at the moment. So on the one optimistic side, the environment's in the news. Suitably balanced by JOBS<\/a>. But on the other, where it feels like the money is, the genetic manipulation of future humans is...not so much.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n