The Young Fogey Handbook: A guide to backward mobility

There was a horrid rival of class in Thatcher's Britain" it started with the Sloane Ranger handbook of which Princess Diana was its Queen. The young fogey was the sort of man who dressed as if he was living in the days of Evelyn Waugh and the computer was an alien threatening his right to inherited wealth. The odd thing is that while the books were presented as humour, some people used them as guides to modern etiquette amongst the upper classes.

An excellent and amusing dissection of this now rarely seen phenomenon; I was first introduced to it at university and it took me six years to obtain my own copy, but it was well worth it!