{"id":850,"date":"2025-01-21T08:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T08:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2025-01-21T08:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T08:16:47","slug":"who-are-britains-new-aristocrats-nicholas-harris-new-statesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/who-are-britains-new-aristocrats-nicholas-harris-new-statesman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWho are Britain\u2019s new aristocrats?\u201d &#8211; Nicholas Harris (New Statesman)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cMore stunning is their iterative powers, some holding firm since the days of Palmerston\u2019s first premiership: the percentage of entrants whose parents\u2019 wealth at death was in the top 1 per cent of national wealth is the same now as the 1850s. And when Friedman and Reeves traced more than 100 random families from the first editions of Who\u2019s Who to today, 57 per cent had descendants who had later made the cut. In other words, if you have a family member in the elite, you are 120 times more likely to get there too compared with everyone else\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/books\/book-of-the-day\/2024\/09\/who-are-britains-new-aristocrats\">https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/books\/book-of-the-day\/2024\/09\/who-are-britains-new-aristocrats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMore stunning is their iterative powers, some holding firm since the days of Palmerston\u2019s first premiership: the percentage of entrants whose parents\u2019 wealth at death was in the top 1 per cent of national wealth is the same now as the 1850s. And when Friedman and Reeves traced more than 100 random families from the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,5,3,4],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-email_newsletter","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}