My
brother is personal friends with T. Dhamiri Petra, the Crown-Prince of Malaysia, and has a permanent invitation to drop into the palace any time, Abimbola Fernandez, daughter of His Excellency Ambassador Chief Antonio Deinde Fernandez, the new Permanent Representative of the Central African Republic and the richest and most influential African Warlord in the world, Hector Falconer, son of Brian Falconer, one of the top ten Scottish landowners, and second cousin to Lord Falconer, the Lord Chancellor, Lady Katherine Douglas, daughter of Lady Irene Douglas, the Marchioness of Bute...the list goes on. And then there are all the minor deities he is concerned with as well.

My grandfather, Major (medical) Dr. R. R. Hughes PhD OBE, set up and commanded the field hospital for the Allies at D-Day, and was awarded the George Cross and the Conspicuous Gallantry award, and afterards basically invented neuroscience. One of his books, Clinical Electroencephalography, and many of his papers are still used as core-texts by students around the world, and remain bibles to that exact science. His son and my uncle, Dr. S. H. C. Hughes, developed a method of producing CT-scanning devices more cheaply and making them available to the rest of the world.

We are also direct descendants of Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe.

We are upper-middle class and public-school educated, so we are not afflicted with accents and are therefore “posh” to the rest of you useless plebs. We also make your anti-work way of life financially possible because the government inexplicably hates us. Damn socialists. What-ho.
(digestive, Fri 16 Sep 2005, 18:28, Reply)