Excellent:

Several hundred comments to denounce a single harmless gap-year student. Poor guy. I thank Jesus there were no blogs or internet when I was his age. This Max is no more twattish than any other British teenager, only he has the misfortune to have a father who got him a column in The Guardian.

Is nepotism out of control in our newspaper industry? I remember Victoria Coren used to write columns about her A-levels in The Daily Telegraph. Those were superb, but then she starts abusing her position of authority to get a job for her drooling old parent, the self-styled “Alan”. And I was, like, we all admire your daughter, Mr Coren, but don’t you have any talent of your own?

No need to go there to Read The Whole Thing because that is The Whole Thing.  But, if you haven’t already, go there anyway and read all the rest of the blog.

Being a libertarian I have to be relaxed about nepotism, because nepotism happens in the free market and is bound to.  People trust their own family more than random people, and so employ and promote them, having first taught them the business better than random people.  Trades and skills, and all the necessary attitudes and habits of mind needed for them, run in families, thanks to both genetics (including selective mating), and environment.  Why fight it?