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I feel obliged to comment, obvious though it may be , on the ‘make up ‘ of the judges in the supreme court. I should first point out there was probably little actual make up- there is only one woman out of the 11 justices (it s a statistical fact that woman tend to wear make up more in general, although who knows maybe in this elite group the rules are different, I don’t know). There is no judge from an ethnic minority. 3 of them are from Oxford, 6 are from Cambridge. It looks like they are mostly from fairly elite schools. It is right to say that the Justices lack diversity on many levels. Why does it matter that in 2009 we have a supreme court that is drawn from such a small group whether it be class , gender or race?
For such an old democracy it is rather pathetic that our supreme court looks so similar to a court of 80 years ago. It sais a lot about opportunity in life. These judges consciously or not, will at times be drawing on their own personal experience of life as they navigate the social mores of a time: this does not bode well for many of us but particularly those of us who know and use the ghanmustgo bag!
