With the People’s Assembly falling on the day Ed Miliband announced he would be sticking to Conservative spending plans, there was much talk last week of Labour abandoning the working classes. It’s not exactly news. Labour gave up on the working class two decades ago. But now I’m helping to build a new party of […]
It’s a curious irony that with the death of Margaret Thatcher and the release of Ken Loach’s The Spirit of ’45, the two great ideological consensuses of the 20th century should return to sharp focus at the same time. Both ideologies emerged from a country in ruins. On the one hand, a spirit of unity,
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Arguing that the traditional understanding of British social divisions is out of date, the BBC has launched its class calculator. The BBC is right to conclude that simplistic brackets such as upper, middle and working class no longer accurately reflect 21st century occupations and lifestyles. But despite a compelling appreciation of cultural and social capital
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