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In the preface of his play Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw famously wrote: “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.”
He was referring, of course, to that perennial English obsession: class. That was over a century ago, when class was clearly stratified and identifiable by social connections, money, clothes and, perhaps most obvious