Don, I don't know who gave you your work ethic, and all credit for the scholarship etc - but it didn't serve you terribly well did it? You gave it to your children (as you gave them your linguistic and analytical ability), and perhaps it has served them better - thanks very probably to the years between your educational period under MacMillan, Home, etc and on the other hand the later Wilson "white heat of technology" years when social attitudes DID change and it was possible for some (but still not all) to get ahead. The possibility of social mobility was enhanced. Now it is decreasing and the UK has one of the least class-mobile societies.

You should be screaming for an egalitarian society so that your grandchildren can prosper according to their abilities.