Monday, March 11, 2013

Signs of hard times for the middle classes

‘With a name like that, we had better be able to afford school fees’ - Times Birth Announcements 9 February 2013

‘We had to make sure we didn’t choose names that meant we had to send our sons to private school’ – Times Birth announcements 9 March 2013

The middle classes must be expecting the recession to last for the next 18 years.

But just think of Lord Coe, now one of the most admired & honoured men in the land. With a name like Sebastian, going to a comprehensive school oop North in gritty Sheffield in Yorkshire  must have been the making of him.

Link
Lord Coe receives award at palace