Class distinctions may be closely tied to levels of income, but more pertinent is the outlook that such conditions foster. Consider former prime minister David Cameron, who once said in an interview: ‘The papers keep writing that [my wife] comes from a very blue-blooded background. She’s actually very unconventional. She went to a day school’. This is the kind of innocent myopia that comes about when one’s entire worldview has evolved in a state of relative affluence. There is a good reason why leftists whose predominant obsession is identity politics are often reluctant to consider issues of
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