Bullingdon Club
What’s wrong with Eton? It doesn’t teach snobbery
On one hand, I hate the idea that I am part of a group of school alumni whom it is fair game to mock as posh, pampered and out of touch. On the other hand, I hate the idea of inequality of opportunity, of which Eton is her metaphor.
By Musa Okwonga | Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 14 August 2012 at 11:40 am
Bullingdon Club: The politics of Posh
In the first of a series of blogs this week looking at the politics of class, Alastair Campbell discusses Laura Wade’s Posh. The play, which, if any comparisons with the notoriously elite Bullingdon Club are drawn (of which Conservative trio David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson were all members) opens a more disturbing concern than our political leaders not knowing the price of milk. Last year the Prime Minister denied that there were similarities between the club he was famously a member of, and the destructive behaviour witnessed in the summer riots.
By Alastair Campbell | Eagle Eye, Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 25 June 2012 at 12:40 am
Two arrogant posh boys? Time to stop the inverted snobbery
When Conservative MP Nadine Dorries described her own party’s leadership as “two arrogant posh boys who don’t know the price of milk “ on BBC2’s Daily Politics Show earlier this week, she declared open class war in the media, prompting yet another run of editorials and comment pieces condemning the toffs at the top.
By Ruth Whippman | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 25 April 2012 at 11:50 am
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