Why are we so hard on our posh twerps?

If there's one thing we all hate, it's posh people behaving badly.

Max Irons, one of the stars of The Riot Club, the new film about the Bullingdon Club, thinks it will serve its purpose if it sheds light on the Establishment. Really, says Daily Telegraph columnist Michael Henderson. "Not many people, one imagines, warm to the Bullingdon brigade. They looked a bunch of twerps three decades ago, and time has not been kind to them."

But so what? If you can't misbehave in your salad days, says Henderson, then it's a "poor show", wherever you are. "Young Irons, it appears, wasn't very different, being expelled from Bryanston for the usual reasons."

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