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The Nepo Baby

Strikes Back

Brooklyn Peltz Beckham’s disownment of the House of Posh and Becks is a move both psychological and pragmatic, writes Jake Arnott

David and Victoria Beckham placed their eldest son into the public eye as soon as he was born in 1999
Photo: Rich Gold/Alamy

Brooklyn Peltz Beckham’s recent, very public, announcement of the schism with his family was a showstopping moment in the global theatre of social media.

For many, it was simply a welcome distraction from Donald Trump’s warmongering rhetoric. For others, it was some domestic drama of classical proportion.

But what’s the story here? Broad farce or intergenerational revenge tragedy?

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Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’ 

The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling’, examining working-class participation in the creative industries across Greater Manchester. He spoke to Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes about how opportunities for people from poorer backgrounds has declined since the 1960s, and why his work prosecuting the grooming gangs perpetrators as the former Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West informed his insights on class
Hardeep Matharu, Peter Jukes

The Sleep of Reason; The Lightbulb of Brutal Clarity

Like that 2010 exposure of US foreign policy discussions, the Epstein Files shine a light on a global policy-making programme – not one run by elected politicians or the ‘deep state’, but an international set of monied oligarchs enjoying a tax-free, lawless lifestyle in the offshore archipelago of dark money and shadow banking.
Peter Jukes