Old establishment |
New establishment |
| Order of the Garter | BBC Sports Personality of the Year |
| Parliament’s Woolsack | The Supreme Court |
| The Borgias | Sir Nicholas Serota and friends |
| William Rees-Mogg | Owen Jones |
| Jacob Bronowski | Simon Cowell |
| Ciggy soak and TV cook Fanny Cradock | Clean-living (Deliciously) Ella Mills |
| Shirley Williams | Lily Allen |
| MCC committee members | BBC trustees |
| Sid James | Lord Sugar |
| Oxbridge high-table dinners | Institute for Government lunchtime talks |
| Toad in the hole | Sushi |
| Richard Ingrams | Guido Fawkes website |
| Bishop of Sodor and Man | Emma Thompson |
| Young Conservatives | Tinder |
| The Astors | The Kardashians |
| The Dimblebys | The Dimblebys |
| Athenaeum | Babington House |
| BBC | |
| Morecambe and Wise | Philip Hammond and John McDonnell |
| Roast joints at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand | Artichoke spaghetti at the River Café |
| Royal Albert Hall | Glastonbury |
| Director of Public Prosecutions | Twittersphere |
| Church Times | The Economist |
| The Fourth of June | ‘Black Friday’ |
| Arthur Scargill | Lord (Gus) O’Donnell |
| Garter King of Arms | Wikipedia editors |
| Cain and Abel | The Milibands |
| Peters and Lee | The Clooneys |
| Sandhurst | London School of Economics |
| Lady Penelope’s Parker | Some Somali bloke from Uber |
| Salvation Army ladies | Polly Toynbee and George Monbiot |
| Kempinski Hotel, St Moritz | Sandy Lane resort, Barbados |
| Terry-Thomas | Sir Richard Branson |
| Archbishop of Canterbury | Gary Lineker |
| Blue Peter presenters | Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Archbishop of York | Lord (Tony) Hall |
| Tiny Tim | Alan Bennett |
| Margaret Rutherford | Stephen Fry |
| Solomon | Lady Hale |
| Hattie Jacques | Emily Thornberry |
| Sir Edwin Landseer | Banksy |
| Mother Teresa | Sir David Attenborough |
| Arthur Askey | Sandi Toksvig |
| Freemasons | Common Purpose |
| The Jesuits | Resolution Foundation |
| Blofeld | Lord Mandelson |
| Kenneth Clark | Alan Titchmarsh |
| Harvey Nicks | Shepherd’s Bush Westfield |
| Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh | Posh and Becks |
| Chatham House | GQ Awards evening |
| Thomas á Becket | Alan Milburn |
| Joyce Grenfell | Nick Clegg |
Quentin Letts
The Establishment of 2018 – a who’s who
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