Tag: Working class

Total Results: 76


January 15, 2020

Samira Ahmed’s win is for all women The BBC presenter's victory isn't an elitist moment: it's part of a long battle for equality and dignity

Julie Bindel

Friday
20.12

20.12

Why did a rundown mining town become a safe Tory seat? Before the Brexit vote I visited Rugeley in the West Midlands, a land of badly-paid jobs, poverty... and Tory voters

James Bloodworth

Friday
13.12

13.12

The danger ahead for Boris Johnson Behind the Tory victory stands a mass of voices that have long been excluded from politics. Can the PM please them all?

Mary Harrington

Tuesday
22.10

22.10

How Noël Coward made me a Marxist I realised that it wasn't just prime ministers and Catholic priests who could lead a double life

Paul Mason

Wednesday
18.09

18.09

Who will speak for today’s working class? The upper echelons of the Church now appeal more to Remain-supporting Hampstead than Leave-supporting Hartlepool

Paul Embery

Thursday
04.04

04.04

Who takes advantage of disadvantage? Misfortune has a certain cachet in woke circles – but is ignored where it counts

Jenny McCartney

Thursday
28.03

28.03

How I overcame my class stigma Class resentment is still a major social and political force in Britain

Roger Scruton

Monday
25.03

25.03

Too posh to fail For clever poor kids to go up the ladder, mediocre rich kids need to go down

James Kirkup

Friday
15.03

15.03

What will the woke folk make of Notting Hill?

Nick Tyrone

Tuesday
19.02

19.02

The Trade Union Club for liberal cosmopolitans

Paul Embery

Wednesday
02.01

02.01

Why liberal-Left paternalism led to Brexit

James Bloodworth

Wednesday
26.12

26.12

Babe Ruth’s biography goes beyond baseball

Henry Olsen