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Long life

Will anyone admit to being in the establishment? (No, not you, David Mellor)

The problem is our big beasts' inability to realise that their pre-eminence is partly down to luck

6 December 2014

9:00 AM

6 December 2014

9:00 AM

This is a tremendous time for ‘ordinary’ people. The elitists, the members of the ‘establishment’, are all on the run. Except, of course, that everybody is ordinary now. Or at least nobody admits to being an insider, a member of the Westminster bubble, of the establishment, or of any such posh outfit.

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