The British middle class
A great story by Zoe Williams about the national education system, national education versus private education, and middle-class selfishness. For me, the ghettoised education system remains the thing to like least in Britain.
Premiership football
The tale of how footballer Wayne Bridge decided to stay at Manchester City on his £4.7 million salary even though the team is unlikely to give him first team football and he has been left out of the Champions League squad. Somehow the price mechanism doesn’t seem to be extracting peak performance from Wayne.
Continental Europe
Still, being here in the UK you get to look at certain other places in Europe and reflect that things could be so much worse.
Tags: education, football, Silvio Berlusconi