A culture of social nods and winks
"By the 'Establishment', I do not only mean the centres of
official power - though they are certainly part of it - but rather
the whole matrix of official and social relations within which
power is exercised. The exercise of power in Britain (more
specifically, in England) cannot be understood unless it is
recognised that it is exercised socially." So the journalist Henry
Fairlie, writing in The
Spectator in 1955, picked up the term "the ...
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