JUST recently, TCW published an excellent essay by Niall McCrae (‘Politicians’ contempt for the common man goes back to the Sixties’) It started:
‘The first half of the Sixties was just before my time, and it is fascinating to see that, while the country has changed dramatically since, the attitude of our ruling class is fundamentally the same. I would summarise it as deceitful paternalism: pretending that policies were for the benefit of the people, when they were merely window-dressing for ulterior motives.’
