George Osborne was forced to pay for an upgrade after sitting in a first-class train carriage with a standard-class ticket.
In addition, clubs are permitted to train their young players for a maximum of five hours a week nowhere near the 10, 000 hours which sports scientists calculate it takes to train a world-class athlete, from the time they start playing.
It's true that affordable rail passes and second-class coaches make train travel accessible to more people.
The long-term aim, however, is to use it to train a group of world-class African sculptors.
"He recognized that it wasn't necessarily an advantage to train all the time at a high-class facility, " Thompson said.
At the station a plaque commemorates the day in 1893 when the founder of modern day India, Mohandas Gandhi, was thrown off a train for travelling in the 'white-only' first class compartment.
On its website, Virgin Trains warns travellers they will be charged an excess or penalty fare if they board a train without a ticket or attempt to change from standard to first class without a first class ticket.
And we need to train our workers for those jobs with new skills and a world-class education.
Ultimately, we may be on a course for divided theaters not by class, as was the Globe, but by habit, like separate train cars designated for smoking, eating and sleeping, depending on one's preference.
The smartening-up of these working-class neighborhoods -- with their cheap rent, relatively large spaces and newly opened train lines -- was inevitable in a way, but it has only added to, not dimmed, the cacophony of eclectic voices ringing through the streets.
Similarly, what caused a minor hiatus about George Osborne's train trip back from his constituency was not the fact that he hadn't bought a first class ticket.
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