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In that time there didn’t need to be differentiations in culture quality. They had wealth to separate people.
We only get ideas of highbrow/lowbrow when the snobs of the Bloomsbury Set wanted to gatekeep culture, excluding new middle classes & working class autodidacts.
“…many of these changes…” actually includes things like competent adults out-competing the slew of mediocre grammar school/public schoolboys.
Comprehensive school types who don’t know their place, children of Empire territories and of course Johnny Foreigner.
No wonder Brexit turned out to be shit
More proof (it it were actually needed) that the Right are only interested in the English working class if they can be stormtroopers for Farage etc.
A vignette. Yesterday I saw one rightwing commentator say the failure for there to be much of a show at a far right demo in Bristol was because both the city's football teams were playing and therefore the "working class" part of Bristol was distracted.
If Chris Worrall thinks the Tory Party are intellectually or philosophically capable of fixing housing in Britain then he’s a fucking idiot.
Doubtful.
Christian Calgie is out of the Guido Fawkes’ School Of Journalism For Mediocre Public Schoolboys.
I only know of one old boy who escaped the rabbithole after leaving.
Wow that escalated quickly
Am guessing this article was free 10h ago, because it’s not free now.
He’s a traitor. Plain and simple.
I like Caitlin Moran. But if it meant planting an IED took her out with the rest of this motley crew, then I could happily live with that.
The fact it features Giles Coren is a massive red flag.
