We may have the monarchy, but you have the hereditary ruling class

Ever since David Cameron became leader of the Conservative Party, Leftist commentators have complained about his sense of entitlement.

If you’re not British, you might not catch the class-war connotations with which that word is freighted. The Prime Minister is an Old Etonian, and he looks and sounds it. Of course, many of his socialist critics went to private schools themselves, but they generally pretend to have been miserable there. Tony Blair, who attended the most famous boarding school in Scotland, went so far as to invent a story about having tried to run away to the Caribbean.