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Oppidans vs scholars: a guide to the social politics of Eton

6 July 2019

9:00 AM

6 July 2019

9:00 AM

Every prime minister is a sociologist. Theresa May drew a distinction between citizens of somewhere and ‘citizens of nowhere’, a sort of riff on David Goodhart’s distinction between Somewheres (rooted, provincial, less well off) and Anywheres (snooty, international, at home on planes and in the corridors of power).

Now Boris Johnson segments the country in a fresh way.

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