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I think what annoys me about this kind of essay is that the main charge, hypocrisy, sort of lands flush.
As if privately educating your child, rather than throwing them in the local comp in the name of the egalitarianism is something to be ashamed of. https://twitter.com/AnglesonWalter/status/1344296616078041093
As if privately educating your child, rather than throwing them in the local comp in the name of the egalitarianism is something to be ashamed of. https://twitter.com/AnglesonWalter/status/1344296616078041093
The author kind of betrays his own bourgeois neurosis when he refers disparagingly this unnamed bit of leafy South London as being a similacurm "without the grime" - as if having to step over syringes and past burnt-out Vauxhall Novas somehow carries an authenticity.
You should dislike these people because they're a bunch of upper normie know nothing's who got rich off a credit boom in the 90s/00s and are thus content with twee declincism, not because they like having their hedge trimmed a fortnight and a pavement clear of Morley's boxes.
And what is this 'authentic' South London he speaks of? Places like Brixton, Camberwell etc were well off suburbs until the 1960s. If anything this is a reversion to type. But according to green fingers here we should long for the days for when your car stereo got fenced.
