March 01, 2017 at 11:00AM
Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries
No one asks if they are posh because they actually think they are. Jacob Rees-Mogg doesn’t rush down to breakfast every morning, silk Turnbull & Asser pyjamas billowing, and immediately ask his valet to check the internet just to make doubly sure.
The reason people ask this question is because although no one would really want to be described as posh, everyone is fascinated by the idea of it. There’s something about those Henrys and Arabellas that make voyeurs of us all. From Downton Abbey to Made in Chelsea, our culture is full of wildly popular entertainment about posh people and their lives. It’s not that people really want to be like Binky Felstead (her name sounds like a sailor’s knot) or Lord Grantham, but they like the thrill of seeing how close or far away their lives are from them.
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