Andrew Martin

Class conscious - Andrew Martin decides scuffed paperbacks are classy

• 12 April 2004

Basically, the rich don't read books, so sod them if they don't like paperbacks

Life & Society

Class conscious - Andrew Martin gives up on ambition

• 05 April 2004

I've now renounced my ambitions - such as being a greenkeeper on a golf course

Life & Society

Class conscious - Andrew Martin tries to keep up appearances

• 29 March 2004

Has anyone at all in Britain darned a sock in the past ten years? Asks Andrew Martin

Class conscious - Andrew Martin asks if a cigar has snob appeal

• 22 March 2004

How can anyone smoke a cigar without looking as if they're showing off? Asks Andrew Martin

Class conscious - Andrew Martin finds they're posher Up the Hill

• 15 March 2004

Up the Hill is smart and pricey. Down the Hill is "ethnic" and has a KFC

Books

Tunnel vision

• 08 March 2004

Underground London: travels beneath the city streets
Stephen Smith Little, Brown, 390pp, £17.99
ISBN 1567118666

Class conscious - Andrew Martin finds the "Full Fulham" in St Moritz

• 08 March 2004

Only in St Moritz can you see the Full Fulham - and not go into a Marxist rage

Life & Society

Class conscious - Andrew Martin digs deep for horticultural irony

• 01 March 2004

Buddleias, fuchsias and garden gnomes are fit only for plebs. Or maybe ironists

Class conscious - Andrew Martin spots class differences at the recycling centre

• 23 February 2004

Recycling San Pellegrino plastic bottles is middle class. Recycling Lilt cans isn't

Life & Society

Class conscious - Andrew Martin on why cash is not carried by the middle classes

• 16 February 2004

It all comes down to whether you carry £5,000 worth of "readies" in a plastic bag