Guardian writer has done GCSE Sociology

G Younge has always been the nearest among Guran writers to grasp the real issues, although he prioritises 'race'. Today he describes social inequality in Britain. It confuses elite analysis with class and occupational stratification and even flirts with biological determinism, but doesn't do too badly --for a Grun columnist .Of course, there is an assumed zeitgeisty link with Brexit:

Government and culture are dominated by the same narrow section of the population. It’s no way to run a country

the Sutton Trust and the Social Mobility Commission issued a report into elitism in Britain that “paints a picture of a country whose power structures are dominated by a narrow section of the population [where] social mobility is low and not improving”.

There is a clear and undeniable link between the entrenched and calcifying class stratification in British society and the inept chaos in which we currently find ourselves. The gene puddle from which the elite siphons its ranks has become shallow and fetid....Those who make the laws in government, oversee the civil service that will implement them, adjudicate on them in court or assess them in newspapers, are drawn from such a narrow social layer that they might as well be the same person. Even when they do not form a majority, their critical mass is such that they set the tone, define the culture and shape the parameters for what is institutionally permissible.

 Then a fashionable twist towards 'leadership'

“The country’s model of leadership is disintegrating,” wrote the Economist, not known for its Marxist tendencies, in December. “Britain is governed by a self-involved clique that rewards group membership above competence and self-confidence above expertise.” [then a twist back in the right direction] At issue here is not individuals but a system that rewards privilege and privileges the rich – giving more opportunities, wealth and power to those who did not earn them, or have otherwise acquired them, while excluding others of access to resources.

The man needs an account of social reproduction and ideology rather than vague stuff about 'gene puddles' and conspiracy theories about Etonians. There is a sort of slightly recognition that he and the rest of the Graun crew have been a bit slow on the uptake in the past:

Class privilege is not new. Between 1955 and 1964 all three British prime ministers went to Eton and Oxford. But several things have changed since then that make this persistent dominance of a tiny stratum particularly problematic. First of all, levels of income inequality have grown massively. According to the Equality Trust thinktank, between 1938 and 1979 the share of income going to the top 10% fell by 40%, while that going to the bottom grew a little. After 1979 that trend reversed sharply and has now effectively stalled. Real wages have yet to catch up with pre-crisis levels.

The we warm up to Brexit -- maybe via a belated  word on the Great Crash:

We are in a period of extended crisis and division, largely brought about by financial elites whose reckless behaviour was first enabled and indulged, and then forgiven and written off, by political elites. It is highly unlikely that the imaginative and radical responses we need to turn this around are going to come from those same elites...most of those critiquing it are so deeply embedded and implicated in the world they are critiquing, they just can’t see straight

Then on to the major issues:

Brexit is simply the clearest manifestation of these crises. The race for Tory leader is the clearest illustration of how ill-equipped we are to deal with them. This party has won an outright majority just once in the last six elections and is about to elect its third leader in three years. The runaway favourite is an unrepentant race-baiter, liar, philanderer and opportunist, liked least by those who know him best. His opponent is just hopeless. The question of how long either will last in the top job is debatable...Throughout this time media elites, [non-Grdunia journalists,no doubt] drawn from the same class as their financial and political counterparts, have mostly been obsessed by the crisis in leadership in an ostensibly “unelectable” Labour party, which has had the same leader for four years – and gained seats and vote share in the last general election 

Of course, the important GUardian issues are not neglected.The same 'opinion' section also has:

As a ginger, I’m calling out the racist backlash against The Little Mermaid