Speak up for yacht clubs
Apr 29, 2021
3 minutes
LIBBY PURVES
Time somebody stood up for yacht clubs. They get a terrible press, really, don’t they? Ripe targets for satirists, they are used as shorthand for entitled wealth and unearned leisure, ridiculously pompous rules, flag-obsession, brass-buttoned blazers, peaked hats and mindless right-wing harrumphing.
Now I have no objection at all to flags. Blazers are useful tidy garments – nobody sneers at rugby internationals wearing them, peaks are useful on hats,
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