article_snippet: Playwright Alan Bennett, who has said that England is a nation of hypocrites and that English are 'better than all the rest' at setting double standards .
article_snippet: But according to playwright Alan Bennett, what England really excels at is ‘hypocrisy.
article_snippet: But in an interview with Martha Kearney, to be broadcast today, playwright Alan Bennett says playwright Alan Bennett believes that what the English are ‘better than all the rest’ at is setting double standards.
article_snippet: ‘A substantial minority of our children receive a better education than the rest because of the social situation of the parents.
article_snippet: ’ playwright Alan Bennett went on to claim that too often, the English are lazy in the English assumptions that problems which affect other countries do not exist in other countries own, saying: ‘Our policemen are wonderful, provided you’re white and middle class and don’t take to the streets.
article_snippet: As part of Claudius explanation, the writer says that policeman in England are wonderful, 'provided you're white and middle class and don't take to the streets' (file picture)
article_snippet: I am English, I am a hypocrite.
highlights_snippet: Writer made attack on England in series on BBC Radio 4's World at One .
  Says that English are 'better than all the rest' at setting double standards .
  
highlights_snippet: But says he doesn't exempt he from criticism and adds he too is English and a 'hypocrite' 