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Letters: Peter Hitchens vs Nick Cohen, and the case against the middle class

31 August 2013

9:00 AM

31 August 2013

9:00 AM

Piggies in the middle

Sir: Your feature ‘The strange death of the middle class’ (24 August) assumes that young people who do not attend fee-paying schools cannot have access to the same opportunities as those who do. I attended my local comprehensive in the first decade of this century. Despite the variable teaching quality, I did well in exams, went on to a good university, and now work for an aerospace company.

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