More Guardian fun on a bank holiday morning with Charlie Brooker, Penguin politics and the UK local elections...
It's hard not to feel a tinsy bit sorry for Cleggy's Lib Dems. A penguin-costumed contender beat a Lib Dem candidate in Edinburgh...
Showing posts with label United Kingdom. Show all posts
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Sunday, 6 May 2012
UK Meritocracy? I'm not so sure...
This is a real corker! American writer Gary Younge making a few well-aimed points in The Guardian about the UK's class system.
He argues it must be tough to be someone with inherited wealth telling poor people to 'buck up' in tough economic times...
I took one thing away from it -- I would LOVE a starting salary of 90,000 pounds! Where do I sign up?
He argues it must be tough to be someone with inherited wealth telling poor people to 'buck up' in tough economic times...
I took one thing away from it -- I would LOVE a starting salary of 90,000 pounds! Where do I sign up?
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