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On a visit to my 31-year-old sister's garden for a barbecue a fortnight ago, her laundry rack was full of pretty knickers drying in the sun. When I took a glance at the labels, I was in for a shock. M&S!
All the jobs which once provided an escape route for bright, non-academic working class kids have been colonised by the expensively-educated.
Only a mother could love a nepo baby – but there are some professions in which the far reach of the dead hand of nepotism strikes me as worse than others. In such frothy fields as modelling and television presenting, the prettiest face will still usually win out: look at Maya Jama, the new compere
It may pass as just an extra day for some but for others, it could be the first day of the rest of their lives.
She's loved the country since she was a child - yet in the wake of last year's earthquake Flora Gill almost halted her wedding plans there.