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Middle England. They’re nicer than you think

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

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

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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More in Posh In 2007

Still a class thing

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...

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A toff and proud of it

TV chef and countryside campaigner Clarissa Dickson-Wright kicks off a series of articles looking at the issue of class and poshness in 2007

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Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

Vote!

Was the government wrong to sack David Nutt?

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