Good Reading

From Max Hastings at the Daily Mail (UK): A nation divided: Britain is no longer split by class. Instead the social chasm is between taxpayers and the public sector

Watching TV images of the marchers snake through the capital, I reflected that they should rightfully have been wearing wigs and powder, because they are the modern-day counterparts of pre-Revolution French aristocrats, enjoying advantages such as the rest of us can only dream of.

Once upon a time ‘civil servants’, as they were called before both words became satirical, enjoyed lifelong job security, to compensate for the fact that they received much more modest financial rewards than their private-sector counterparts.

Read the whole thing. Then look at Wisconsin.