Posh In 2007
In Posh In 2007
Middle England. They’re nicer than you think
- By Richard Reeves
- 25 October 2007
Middle Englanders are insular, selfish and intolerant. Not so, argues Richard Reeves. Plus Stephen Armstrong on the Accidental Middle Englanders
Accidental Middle Englanders
- By Stephen Armstrong
- 25 October 2007
Stephen Armstrong finds a worried generation
A Tale of Two Speeches
- By Martin Bright
- 04 October 2007
The difference between the speeches of the two main party leaders was about class. The election will be too.
Class psychology
- By Sandra Jovchelovitch
- 01 October 2007
The psychology underlying the British class system is what makes it unique, explains Sandra Jovchelovitch
Linguistic snobbery
- By Penelope Gardner-Chloros
- 24 September 2007
In the latest in our series on what we mean by 'posh' in 2007, Dr. Penelope Gardner-Chloros examines how speaking habits have changed in recent years.
Union chief's warning to Brown
- By Tony Woodley
- 12 September 2007
In the latest in newstatesman.com's 'Posh in 2007' series union boss Tony Woodley warns Gordon Brown he can't rely on Labour's name to secure working class votes
Unmentionable truths
- By John Pilger
- 06 September 2007
Class allows us to connect the present with the past and to understand the malignancies of a modern economic system based on inequity and fear
Role models aren't only middle-class
- By Darcus Howe
- 06 September 2007
The instinct of any caste or class is to reproduce itself, and so it is with the black and urban middle classes
Posh and black
- By Simon Woolley
- 05 September 2007
Operation Black Vote director Simon Woolley is the latest contributor to newstatesman.com's series of articles on class and poshness in the 21st century
Cultural apartheid?
- By Brian Coleman
- 28 August 2007
The Proms remain a resolutely all-white, Middle English affair
Also in Posh In 2007
Still a class thing
- By Anthony Little
- 24 August 2007
As part of our series looking at the issue of class and 'poshness' in 2007, we ask the Head Master of Eton College to give us his thoughts on the subject...
A toff and proud of it
- By Clarissa Dickson-Wright
- 17 August 2007
TV chef and countryside campaigner Clarissa Dickson-Wright kicks off a series of articles looking at the issue of class and poshness in 2007
