IAIN AYRE POSHNESS AND CLASS

While writing the piece on a magnificent 1930 Vauxhall Hurlingham for the December 2019 issue of your favourite classic car magazine, it struck me that it was a cynical exploitation of British social anxiety to name the car after a very posh gentlemen’s club, the Hurlingham Club. At the very top of English society is a tiny number of aristocrats – which doesn’t include the Windsor family – and they couldn’t care less what anybody thinks of them. At the bottom of English society is a similar tribe who