This week: Excuse Me, Your Class is Showing
We are becoming, so we are told, a classless society. How you do what you do is more important than who your father was. But what happens when a working-class boy like Eric Parsloe becomes President of the Oxford Union? Or Mike D'Abo, after Harrow and Cambridge, chooses the world of pop instead of the Army? Or Diana Regler, born to a life of servants and tennis parties in Kenya, chooses instead to marry a fitter?
There are a great many exceptions, but class consciousness is something you don't have to look far to find - as Jeremy James discovered when he looked for examples of those who have crossed, or tried to cross, the class barrier.