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How to buy your way into the British establishment

Money isn't quite everything. But it's getting there

22 March 2014

9:00 AM

22 March 2014

9:00 AM

‘Money has won,’ Martin Amis said this week, promoting his BBC4 programme Martin Amis’s England on telly this Sunday. The class gulf has disappeared, he said, replaced by a money society.

It’s a little more complicated than that. Class differences are still stonkingly obvious in this country, whenever you open your mouth or put your clothes on in the morning.

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