One thing unites snobs of all persuasions: contempt for the middle class | Catherine Bennett

Eco-protesters and Remainers can all be dismissed as being members of the Waitrose shopping classAs painful as it is to admit, Jacob Rees-Mogg did, once, have his uses. Or one, at least. It emerged during one of his earlier Question Time appearances (when the BBC could still, just about, pretend ignorance of the then embryo demagogue's tendresse for racists). Responding to a question about Heathrow, Rees-Mogg volunteered that he hadn't minded the planes when he lived in Slough. "Eton," chaffed the host, David Dimbleby. "I was at school with your son," said Rees-Mogg.Anyway, thanks to this contribution (along with other BBC-presenter-on-BBC-presenter squabbles about who is or is not "posh"), it can be demonstrated that Sky News' Adam Boulton is not the only mature white male TV presenter to suffer from pot-kettle syndrome, to the possibly debilitating extent of wanting - although not for the purposes of satire - to belittle others for enjoying the same social capital and privileges as himself. Continue reading...