This is a daring, provocative, and unusually frank discussion of the Gap—the invisible, yet powerful, divide between classes—which always has, and perhaps always will, plague Britain. To pretend that class distinctions are a thing of the past, is, as Ferdinand Mount argues, nothing more than an ostrich-like attempt at idealism. Through fine observation and extensive research, covering issues as diverse as the distribution of wealth, the significance of speech patterns, and the politics of egalitarianism, the author pursues an oft-times illusive answer to the fundamental question: How can oppressive inequality in Britain be wiped out once and for all?
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"A book which offers the first real breath of fresh air in Conservative thinking since the Thatcher revolutionaries imposed their own intellectual orthodoxy" Polly Toynbee"
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Ferdinand Mount was editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1991 to 2002. He has published nine novels, among which Of Love and Asthma won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He is also a former head of the Number Ten Policy Unit and director of the Centre for Policy Studies. He is married with three grown-up children and lives in Islington.
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At a society wedding a couple of years ago, a friend of mine wandering into the marquee for the reception was greeted by a cousin of his who took him aside and muttered conspiratorially into his ear, 'Mind the gap'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Industrial Revolution, Church of England, Labour Party, Time Traveller, United States, Daily Telegraph, Virginia Woolf, Brave New World, Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher, Lloyd George, Prime Minister, Gregory King, Aldous Huxley, East End, Everywhere Spoken Against, Horace Mann, Lord Reith, Polly Toynbee, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Bleak House, Department of Education, House of Commons, Jonathan Rose New!
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At a society wedding a couple of years ago, a friend of mine wandering into the marquee for the reception was greeted by a cousin of his who took him aside and muttered conspiratorially into his ear, 'Mind the gap'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Industrial Revolution, Church of England, Labour Party, Time Traveller, United States, Daily Telegraph, Virginia Woolf, Brave New World, Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher, Lloyd George, Prime Minister, Gregory King, Aldous Huxley, East End, Everywhere Spoken Against, Horace Mann, Lord Reith, Polly Toynbee, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Bleak House, Department of Education, House of Commons, Jonathan Rose New!
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