Celeb after celeb says we must take in more asylum seekers. How rich when they live in gilded enclaves

The Daily Mail
Mar. 11, 2016

Highgate is very pretty, very expensive and very other-worldly. In this patch of North London, the average property costs Ł1.5 million.

A third of its 4,800 homes have at least four bedrooms and three-quarters of them have fewer than one person per bedroom. A Georgian gem, the whole place feels like a film set. Hardly surprising, then, that so many celebrities choose to live around here — Jude Law and Benedict Cumberbatch among them.

But don’t let anyone say that they are out of touch with the real world. Perish the thought. After all, our luvvies are forever lecturing the rest of us on our naivety and lack of real understanding.

A few months back, the audiences who flocked to London’s Barbican to watch Cumberbatch play Hamlet had to endure a foul-mouthed rant from the actor, demanding that Britain do more to help migrants and refugees.

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