Is UK still obsessed with class?

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Oh hell yeah class is a big thing in the UK. The UK is among the most classist societies in the world - there's very little class mobility compared to the US. In the UK, upper-class means that your family has titles, lives on a large estate, votes for the Conservative Party, probably converted to Catholicism because they think Anglican is "too woke" (and act more stereotypically Catholic than people whose families have been Catholic for centuries), and gives their kids pretentious names like Sixtus, Caspian, Xanthippe, and Honeysuckle. (Actually, Brits tend to judge people by their first names in general, more so than Americans. They hate any name that is considered "chavvy", yet they'll praise the pompous names that rich people give their kids. A shining example would be that monstrous Katie Hopkins woman.) The irony is that I've met working-class Brits and many of them are actually way nicer and less judgmental than the rich ones.

Some upper-class British customs weird me out. For example, in many upper-class British families, little boys are not allowed to wear long pants until they are eight years old. That means they have to wear shorts even in the freezing cold winter. Look at Prince George - he wore only shorts until a few years ago, and his little brother Louis still wears only shorts. Apparently pants on a four-year-old boy is considered too "plebeian". Some of these little posh kids literally dress like they walked out of the Victorian era.

Used a first class stamp recently.

Are there still private clubs in the UK?

As for the Catholicism thing...it weirds me out how upper-class Brits are so fascinated with being Catholic, yet just a few generations ago they hated the Irish simply for being Catholic. I'm Catholic and my family has always been Catholic, and to be honest, this just doesn't feel right. You hated us and call us "papists" and "mackerel snappers", and now all of a sudden you want to be one of us? It's like if a Nazi all of a sudden wanted to convert to Judaism. Lots of these upper-class Catholic converts think they own Catholicism. They also often have like seven or eight kids when Catholics in my area generally only have two or three. In the US it's a totally different story. Here most Catholics are either middle-class or working-class, many of them are Latino, and many of them lean liberal when it comes to things like same-sex marriage. It seems like in the UK most Catholics are posh converts.