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After Labour, Posh Is Back in Britain
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason May 14, 2010 12:30am |
| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | May 14, 2010 12:00am |
| Description | LONDON—For many years, James Fergusson hid a secret: He was educated at Eton College, the elite private school for boys he attended with Britain's new prime minister, David Cameron, in the early 1980s.
Like many Etonians of his generation, Mr. Fergusson, a freelance journalist and novelist, had grown self-conscious about his status as a man of status.
In modern Britain, it had become uncool to be posh, as private schools lost their grip on the country's top jobs and cultural tastemakers sneered at privilege.
Mr. Fergusson sometimes dropped Eton from his résumé and sought to tone down his upper-crust pronunciation.
Among old boys, as the private-school alumni are known, "there was an assumption that the days of Etonians in high office were over," Mr. Fergusson said. "And then bang, along comes David Cameron." |
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