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Earlier this week John McDonnell chatted with feminist academic Selina Todd via Zoom about her new book on social mobility, and its themes of class, education and the struggle for a more egalitarian world. LYNNE WALSH reports

THE concept of social mobility might well have achieved legendary status in some parts of society, but an Oxford professor is quietly smashing the myth to smithereens.
OK, it’s not quite a Wonder Woman scenario. The devotion to this idea has been doubted for a long time.
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