In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do.

Anthony Sampson

Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson (3 August 1926 - 18 December 2004) was a British writer and journalist. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church Oxford and served with the Royal Navy from 1944-47. During the 1950s he edited the magazine Drum in Johannesburg, South Africa. On returning to the United Kingdom he joined the editorial staff of The Observer, where he worked from 1955-66. Sampson was the author of a series of major books with Anatomy of Britain (1963). His main themes were how Britain works as a state, and large corporations. He was also a founding member of the (defunct) Social Democratic Party (SDP)

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