When Williams wrote his account at the end of the 1950s,society and education were not yet in the grip of the ‘white-hot technological revolution’. The New Right, if they existed, were marginal. The addition of this group constitutes a second and final modification of Williams’ analysis, resulting in a total of five interest groups in education. Overall, the main criticism of Williams’ (1961) model is that it needs to be refined to account for the modern Britsh sociopolitical context of education.