Unequal opportunities

Stories of privilege, failure and hard-won success

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Perspective Media
May 31, 2026

THIS WEEK’S DEEP DIVE
Lost in translation
A LETTER FROM TRINIDAD BY KEVIN JARED HOSEIN

Downtown Chanaguas on market day. Photo by Robert Harding/Alamy Stock Photo

Growing up in Trinidad, novelist Kevin Jared Hosein spent years hunting through backstreets and dusty storefronts for books and films most readers take for granted. A first visit to Britain's bookshops prompts an unexpected reckoning with what scarcity gave him and what abundance might have taken away.

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One of them

Suzanne Moore reflects on her first encounters with Britain's privately educated elite, a new species she discovered on joining a liberal newspaper. What strikes her most isn't their knowledge or confidence, but something far more revealing about power, privilege, and the stories they tell themselves.

Perspective Media • Suzanne Moore

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We have been governed long enough by the products of the best public schools to surely know that education ain’t all it’s cracked up to be

The funk of flunk

Cosmo Landesman explores our complicated relationship with failure: a subject that's become fashionable, repackaged, and sold back to us as opportunity. But when his own book bombs, he finds himself torn between enlightened acceptance and the very human urge to wallow. Is failure really the new success?

Perspective Media • Cosmo Landesman

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There's nothing worse than successful people trying to take over the failure thing. It’s a form of emotional gentrification

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