The British aristocracy. Once upon a time, they ruled the world, pillaging the global

South for its resources. But now, after Empire, they've turned their extractive, exploitative

machine of governance back on the UK. From PPE contracts to austerity measures, our rule

and class have robbed the public to enrich elites. But where did that mindset come from?

I'm joined by Sam Bright, investigative journalist and author of Bullington Club Britain,

to find out how the rule and class were made, what they really mean when they talk about rolling

in the mark, and how they get away with ransacking the rest of us. Sam Bright, thank you so much

for joining us. Pleasure. Where does your fascination with posh people come from?

Well, it all comes down to class, doesn't it, really? Taken it right back. Sixth one, I was always

obsessed with private schools and the injustice of people who go to private school and have this

elevated education versus everybody else. I went to state schools in the north of England,

and they were great schools, but I grew up with this sense of deep unfairness that the education

system was rigged at the get-go. I was your typical sort of fist waving teenager in that

regard. Very angry about posh people, private schools. I remember just before I went to university,

actually, the Riot Club came out, which was the satirisation of the Bullington Club,

which I've watched before I went to prepare myself for seeing people have actually gone to private

schools for the first time when I went to university. It broadens beyond private schools, doesn't

it? The whole 360 degrees of British society been rigged in favour of a select few.

It just struck me as appalling. What was it like when you started encountering people who

came from that background? Was it exactly as you thought? Were you like, ah, the Riot Club really

prepared me for encountering you as a human being, or were the things that surprised you?

I think it's always more nuanced, isn't it, than the Hollywood's dramatisation of these things.

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