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David Cameron risks reviving the distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor, which was hard enough to take when uttered by Conservatives who had risen from the lower middle class, like Margaret Thatcher or Norman Tebbit, but is impossible to swallow from Cameron and other graduates of Oxford’s Bullingdon Club, who carry out acts of vandalism dressed in bow tie and tails.
— From a review of Personal Responsibility: Why It Matters by Alexander Brown in the LRB, which also describes the idea of free will as a ‘marshy notion’.
