The sequined, heavily embellished, even more heavily logo-ed look looms like a spectre over the new, more discreetly moneyed class.

We long to know how the moneyed class lives, and misbehaves, so we can hate them for it.

The government has proposed new tax laws that will seriously limit the ability of the country's moneyed classes to hide their wealth abroad.

The moneyed class could afford much better conditions and treatment in private hospital without the risk of loss of employment, a slide in poverty or worse.

They defy gravity and the moneyed classes.