This one was a little bit ridiculous — but only a little: The middle classes are on the march, booksellers and financiers united!
"Overtaxed by the state, underpaid by their employers and overlooked by politicians, middle-class consciousness is growing"
Mostly, the deft, excellent, witty writing of Bagehot — the column, obvs; not the dude — is what makes it work:
"...as if someone had given Colonel Qaddafi a subscription to the London Review of Books"
LOL.
From the grumpy Remainder to the junior banker scouring Reddit for ways to cut his tax bill to the doctor on the picket line, middle-class consciousness is spreading.
One-liners are the best. Anyway, a worthy read.
non-paywalled: https://archive.md/5uaox