Is there still such thing as British society?

Nobody has forgotten the interview of Margaret Thatcher published in Women’s Own on 31st October 1987 while she was Prime Minister. I cannot help but copy down the most well-known extract here:

The Anglophobic English

I have found this real gem in the person of Theodore Dalrymple, a contributing editor of Journal City, a New-York-based conservative magazine focused mainly on urban policy, where he writes a sort of column ironically called “Oh, to be in England” – from the first line of the famous bucolic Robert Browning’s poem. Don’t be worried, “Theodore Dalrymple” is not the real name of this former psychiatrist turned right-wing polemicist, only a pseudonym, a pen name that he chose, according to him, because it “sounded suitably dyspeptic, that of a gouty old man looking out of the window of his London club, port in hand, lamenting the degenerating state of the world.” Actually this self-portrait is so right than it could almost make the reading of his works useless. Indeed this gentleman writes quite a lot, among other things some books whose titles speak for themselves: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass; Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses; or the last one: Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline. Although he piles up reactionary cliches with a rare constancy, he distinguishes himself from his colleagues by a feature that is virtually a trademark: his strong conviction that, among all Western countries, Britain has gone farthest on the way to decadence.