By the end of the evening the combination of the violins, the wine and the heady atmosphere of privilege and poshness have us walking on air as we leave. |
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If he can detach academic excellence from the national obsession with poshness, he will be remembered as a revolutionary. |
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The danger lies, in other words, in the freshly glaring poshness of the Tory elite. |
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The staff seemed to think the relative poshness of the place would be enough to please us. |
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Tony Blair's educational background is often cited as evidence of poshness, but in truth the prime minister is merely a middle-class professional. |
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I'm not exactly proud of these things, but there they are: my poshness is stamped on my forehead, which I pretty much rhyme with torrid, and so it's always seemed pointless to try to disguise it. |
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But poshness only really matters if it matters to voters if Britons favour politicians of a social class close to their own, or at least if class seems to steer voting behaviour. |
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He is certainly not going to be rattled by a few Twitter trolls taking exception to his songs or perceived poshness. |
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It's got all the poshness you'd expect in Cameron Country but the menu has downto-earth touches such as fish and chips. |
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While to this day there's a lingering impression of poshness, one of the show's defining contradictions is that its founding principle is entirely egalitarian. |
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But just as the eventual arrival of Harvey Nichols was seen as a sign we had 'arrived',' a Waitrose is viewed as another barometer of our poshness. |
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