With all due respect, I did spend a brief time at the college in Oxford supported by the TUC, and while I agree about the scholarly version of "labor aristocracy" that Louis mentions, most US students' anglophillic sense of the place does resemble either comedy like Laurel & Hardy or tragedy like Bill Clinton with his fellow travelling to Moscow. It would be nice to think that Bill Bradley's sense of social justice was helped by such a place, but he did vote for some pretty reactionary legislation in the Senate and when he claims to be a union guy because he was the player rep for the Knicks, that does stretch trade unionism much like "new" Labour, doesn't it? Ann
