The rebirth of Britain's upper-class

FOR the past three decades, many Britons had hoped that the rigid class system that defined their country, from Dickens to Downton Abbey, was finally dying. Now they fear that class, their old bugbear, is back on the rise.
From 1979, Britain was led for more than a decade by Margaret Thatcher, a grocer’s daughter, and then by John Major, son of a music hall entertainer.