Thanks so much for highlighting the Blighty blight. How is it that we see the fat cats take our wealth, yet we allow them to give us shoddy service and fend us off with crassinine call center idiots.
Perhaps we've some misplaced expectation that these modern dukes and earls will at least build a decent castle and sponsor latter day Michaelangelos to decorate them. Doesn't Gates drip with style!
Meanwhile, in this nation of inventors, it's more likely that we little people will dream up something to enrich the planet (in a wholesome way) from our cottage in Suffolk; but ma-BT, Tiscali, Sky, Orange et al are still playing the "no bread, let them eat cake" attitude.
More please.

(including an updated scan of Ludditism)