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Helping the wealthy help themselves

It hardly counts as found poetry, but the language of the Government-appointed National Equality Panel is eloquent enough.

In modern Britain, it says, “people’s occupational and economic destinations in early adulthood depend to an important degree on their origins”. Who guessed?

It means that you finish up, more often than not, exactly where you started.