In yet another radio4 prog with Andrew Marr the chap was slavering over David Frost who is working for Al Jazeera. Pity Bush didn't land a hit on the station -when Frost was in it. That would have been the week that was. Also one on Bush House please.
Ian Hislop had an interesting prog about going in search of Middle England. He met some chavs hanging around a street corner with the obligatory pittbull straining at the leash. They were asked their opinions of the local grammar schooll pupils and one of the chavs complained that they thought they were superior and looked down on them. Well if you choose to dwell in the gutter dear chavs, people will look down on you. Why not try and ape your betters by raising your game and applying yourselves to life instead of hanging round street corners getting into trouble.
At least the Middle Classes do something with their lives and give something back - apart from extortionate taxes, they give their time to help the less advantaged - and as the Hislop programme made abundantly clear, have been doing so for centuries.
The only mistake they made - and it was a colossal one - was to allow the State with their collusion to take over the humanitarian impulse and Stalinise it via the Welfare State. Misguided middle class intellectuals created a rod for their own backs and now it is all but broken.
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