The Observer (UK) steals a bit from the Observer (NY), pronouncing British academics the new "It Brits" and using Toby Young's book party at Soho House as Exhibit Number One. Says one academic [Niall Ferguson]: "'One couldn't imagine all of this happening in Oxford, where there's a kind of gentleman's agreement that we're all equally brilliant. It's extremely bad form to suggest that one person is as vulgar as to be a star." (Bad form to suggest, but not to think.) [UPDATE: Spot the recycled quotes: Aside from the recycled Observer quotes, the one above is, according to a reader, from a "NYTM profile of John Sexton/report on the recruitment of economist-types."]
Why Brits with brains are the Big Apple's new blondes [Observer UK]