"You were somehow excusing it because of your background, when other people had posh educations, which I did not, can I remind you.
As the exhausted centre right and left collapse into support for Mohamed Ben Abbas, a genial Muslim moderate with a posh French education and outlook (anything to defeat Marine le Pen, eh!), Prof François finds it expedient to convert to Islam.
In the face of retrograde Labour efforts to portray his party as a cabal of moronic toffs, Mr Cameron confessed his posh background and expensive education.
But even then, back in the early 1970s, most women from her background (posh) and with her education (Oxford) set off on a predictable career in banking or law.
David Cameron, the Tory leader, is not aristocracy, but with his Eton education he is posh enough for caricature.
It seems the government wants a more privileged and smaller higher education system – more (posh) Exeters and fewer (cheap) London Mets.
He has introduced top-up fees so that ordinary folk can enjoy the privilege of paying for their education just as posh people have done for generations.
This haunted Felix and those of us working on the Oz defence team detected a class bias: Felix was assertive, but did not then display the sophistication of Richard and Jim, posh Australians with a university education.
An Eton education not a bit too posh for Bolton, then?
A bacha posh can also more easily receive an education, work outside the home, even escort her sisters in public, allowing freedoms that are unheard of for girls in a society that strictly segregates men and women.
