On Telegraph.co.uk, I argue that the Fabian Society could learn from advice given to Jeanie Buller in the film Ferris Beuller’s Day Off:

In the cult 1980s film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, there is a lesson that the Fabian Society would do well to learn. Ferris Bueller’s sister gets herself worked up because her ever-charming brother is able to get days off school by faking illness. A youth she complains to gives her some advice: “Worry about yourself, not about what your brother does.”

I am reminded of this because of the Fabian Society is currently pushing to persuade people to get worked up about others inheriting money. Sunter Katwali, General Secretary of the Society, which favours inheritance tax, wants us to know that: “The core mission that should underpin progressive politics is that we should not inherit our life chances at birth.”