Bravo Melanie Phillips, as erudite as ever on the overwhelming hypocrisy evidenced by ideologues and assorted morons from the 'loony left', an appellation that unfortunately includes the loony left of Christianity...comprised of an unfortunate amount of the so-called 'mainline' churches...a bit like the 'mainline media'...what is it about mainline...a post-modern pronoun for deceived?!
Those like Oldfield who practise class war believe no achievements should be afforded superior status. To the Oldfields of this world, the great crime committed by Oxford and Cambridge is simply to be excellent.
Instead of elevating standards and thus encouraging aspiration, everything is reduced to the lowest common denominator. And when applied to people, anti-elitism simply means hatred of the better-off, under the rubric of ‘equality’.
This is the sacred dogma of all three political parties, along with the Church of England and the rest of the intellectual establishment (aka the ‘elites’).
With this politics of resentment fanning the flames of public anger against toffs, titans of industry and tax returns, it is hardly a great surprise that some egalitarian exhibitionist chooses to swim towards the blades of the Oxford and Cambridge boats.
Read the full text at:
http://melaniephillips.com/boat-race-grudge-guerilla-and-the-new-threat-from-the-net
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