Few readers, I suspect, are feeling tremendously well disposed towards Arthur Clifton. This 25-year-old hard-Left firebrand is one of the ringleaders of Take Back Power, the radical new anti-capitalist protest group whose members recently flung apple crumble and custard at the Crown Jewels while brandishing a sign that read “TAX THE RICH”. And, as we reported this week, Mr Clifton has informed his fellow revolutionaries about the next stage of his plan to “rebuild society from the bottom up”. In gangs of “50 to 100”, they are to shoplift London branches of Waitrose, and “redistribute” their plunder to “the local community”.

I appreciate, therefore, that not everyone will be sympathetic to Mr Clifton, or the means by which he seeks to achieve his ideological goals. I’m afraid, however, that I cannot share in his critics’ fury – for one very simple reason.

Which is that this budding tribune of the people just happens to have been privately educated at Latymer Upper School, the 400-year-old West London institution which charges fees of £31,095 a year (including VAT) and whose other old boys include Hugh Grant. Meanwhile, his father is an executive at a major insurance brokers which provides coverage for superyachts.

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