60% of chart pop acts are privately educated...and Olympic athletes are not much better.

Yes, it's almost a year old so I can't claim to have my finger on the pulse but this news article is interesting...

Marxism, false consciousness, the illusion of a meritocracy, the relentless march of the bourgeoisie etc etc?  Discuss...

BBC 28 Jan 2011

Laa dee daa floppy haired fops.

Bang-up-to-date fodder for the class war can be found in this Daily Telegraph article here.  Which includes terryifying statistics such as 'In the last three Olympic games, an average of 50 per cent of medal winners were educated at public school (while) just seven per cent of the general populace went through the private school system'.