On Dec 20, 2011, at 2:30 PM, // ravi wrote:
> Hitchens was a toff, a Lord. And the English-speaking world, it seems, still likes to love a Lord.
As more than one person has pointed out, he was from the "lower upper middle class" - he wasn't a lord. Thus the social climbing. A real aristocrat, like Cockburn, doesn't need to do all that climbing, and so can sit in Petrolia with a cockatiel on his shoulder.
Doug