Word: cobbett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greater Nightmare. He concludes from his investigation that The Thing, as William Cobbett called the 19th century Establishment, is no longer a cozy, close-knit power elite; it has fragmented into "a cluster of interlocking circles, touching others only at one edge; they are not a single Establishment but a ring of Establishments." By contrast with the Victorians, Britain's present-day Pooh-Bahs do not aspire to know "what is best for the people," or conspire to run the country, from whose overall interests they are increasingly insulated. "This." argues Sampson "surely is the greater nightmare...