Top of the Class, Liberal Intervention and Other Matters

There's nothing quite like the subject of class, at least among English people. I don't think it's anything like so important in Scotland, Wales or Ireland - and I have for long believed that the English class system is a lingering result of the Norman Conquest. The three classes more or less correspond to Haughty Conqueror, Proud but Dispossessed Saxon and the 'collaborators' or 'realists' in between the two.

Of course it is no longer anything like as simple as that, especially since Henry...