The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

Certain Arabs love Dubai because it's not at all like where they live. Certain others hate it for the same reason. When you hear an Osama bin Laden sympathizer rant about the decadence and hypocrisy of the Arab ruling class, you can be certain he's picturing a nightclub in Dubai.

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.