Proud to be called a champagne socialist

Despite her radical genealogy, Christine Hawkes is happy to keep drinking champagne.The people who tell us “We are the editors of the Journal of Controversial Ideas” (Letters, 19 November) claim in the next paragraph that “At present there is no Journal of Controversial Ideas” – funny set of editors then.If the letter shows how they intend to interpret “the highest standards of academic rigour” for Vol 1 No 1, heaven knows what it will be like when stand