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Let no one stand in the way of the property ambitions of Guy Ritchie and co

Guy Ritchie with his wife, Jacqui Ainsley, in front of his stand ‘The Cashmere Caveman Company’ at the Chelsea Flower Show last year.Guy Ritchie with his wife, Jacqui Ainsley, in front of his stand ‘The Cashmere Caveman Company’ at the Chelsea Flower Show last year.upposing the one per cent read newspapers, some of them may have become dimly aware of a cultural glut, last week, of entertainment about the greed and awfulness of the one per cent.

Though they’ve clearly been some time in the making, these “angry attacks on privilege and wealth”, as Vanessa called them, arrive at an excellent time for British audiences currently denied any prospect of real-life economic justice or retribution. The experience could be less cathartic for any of the real-life super-rich accidentally subjected to viewing in which their yachts are disrespected and their tribe mocked, harangued, occasionally murdered.

If they never do make it to the corrective films or theatre, the financially elite could still stumble across hints that public reverence for their wealth might be exhaustible. Reports from Milan’s fashion week have mentioned “stealth chic”, involving unaccustomed restraint with labels. In May, the, would henceforth “reflect the deeper sensitivities and priorities of a changing world”. Recently, the paper has been reflecting these deeper sensitivities in its jewellery and watches supplements.

What, for instance, if it’s not their confidence that the impoverished or resentful will never successfully push back, explains the repeated evidence that, above a certain level of wealth, incessant building projects are a new seigneurial right? Their iceberg pleasure domes, being invisible and chiefly inconvenient to fellow one per centers, were largely, of course, hilarious.

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