Over at the Guardian, Deborah Orr is fast becoming one of my new favourite columnists. In this article she discusses the contradictions in Britain’s class divisions. I don’t agree with her entirely. Saying that ownership of a second home makes someone a member of the rich elite is an over-simplification, in my view. The rich elite own the means of production. Or, if they don’t directly own the means of production, they are on first name basis with those that do. When it comes to social class, that is the  class distinction that matters the most.