The Establishment is dead
The Establishment is dead. But something worse has replaced it
12 September 2007
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It has been replaced by a narrow, self-serving governing elite
The Spectator political commentator Henry Fairlie, in his column of 23 September 1955, famously identified the Establishment as the mechanism through which power was exercised in this country. His analysis, though at once recognised as authentic, was written as the British Establishment was about to collapse. Today it enjoys some residual notoriety (manifest through former ruling-class institutions such as White’s Club) but no political significance.
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charles pugh
December 12th, 2007 12:09am Report this commenthow do i get hold of a copy of jock bruce gardyne's last speccie article- the one with the fishing joke in it.
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