I find it upsetting to read a newspaper...

A lot of people here consider themselves, or are considered by others, to belong to a particular 'class'....whether this has any practical consequences is debatable. The upper classes, certainly, seem to be increasingly inneffective, having lost a lot of their hereditary powers. Any remaining influence they have seems to be confined to within their own social circles. The middle classes (a relatively recent invention) are busy tring to project an image of libertarianism whilst secretly shitting themselves when a black man walks towards them in the street, and worrying that sending their kids to private school might not give them an advantage over the working class, who are becoming more affluent. This, of course, leaves room at the bottom for a new working class for everyone to shit upon... the terminally unemployed, the homeless, the asylum seekers.....hell, anyone who the rest of society feels like using as a scapegoat, really...