Do you think that that historical grounding is generally lacking in our political class today?
That's the whole [argument] against PPE1 - three ab­stract disciplines taught in a completely ab­stract way, so we could be anywhere, we could be anyone, and so justice, rights, the state become universal and the partic­ularity of the country, which has proved to be so dur­able, and actually quite remarkable, is seen as at best an affectation but at worst a block to modernisation.