Posh In 2007

Middle England. They’re nicer than you think

Middle Englanders are insular, selfish and intolerant. Not so, argues Richard Reeves. Plus Stephen Armstrong on the Accidental Middle Englanders

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Accidental Middle Englanders

Stephen Armstrong finds a worried generation

A Tale of Two Speeches

The difference between the speeches of the two main party leaders was about class. The election will be too.

Class psychology

The psychology underlying the British class system is what makes it unique, explains Sandra Jovchelovitch

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Linguistic snobbery

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.

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Union chief's warning to Brown

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

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Unmentionable truths

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

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Role models aren't only middle-class

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

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?

The Proms remain a resolutely all-white, Middle English affair

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