Fear of loss and class position

This generation of the middle classes has internalised the values of individualist aspiration, as zealously propagated by Tony Blair as by Margaret Thatcher. It does not look to the application of social justice to improve its lot. It expects to rely on its own efforts to get ahead and, crucially, to maintain its position.

From Peter Wilby’s column in The Guardian, Anxiety keeps the super-rich safe from middle-class rage, published yesterday.