Squealing
Ian Buruma, 13 May 1993
Gower: The Autobiography
by David Gower and Martin Johnson.
Collins Willow, 256 pp., £14.99, September 1992,0 00 218413 3 Show More
by David Gower and Martin Johnson.
Collins Willow, 256 pp., £14.99, September 1992,
“... spectacle. But then neither is the squealing of toffs when they feel put upon. Only the other day, Charles Moore (Eton, Cambridge, Spectator, Telegraph) compared Old Etonians to persecuted Jews. Both the pulling and the squealing point to a society in distress, to a sense of national claustrophobia, to a place where too many closed doors promote envy instead ... ”