The real work of the working class
The history of the labour movement is less about class struggle than the fight for universal values
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Welsh Labour is dying
The forces of nationalism and nihilism are tearing the country apart
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Britain can’t afford to be middle class any more
As the country braces for a price shock, what it means to be poor is changing
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Summerfolk review: Maxim Gorky’s tragedy is as relevant as ever
The language is modern but the Russian dacha aesthetic gives the performance its timeless quality
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Politicians are fighting for a working class that no longer exists
Hannah Spencer’s election has sparked a new fury of class-spotting
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There is no working-class party
Politics has fallen behind new class dynamics
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The interwar years were as bewildering as the present
Alwyn Turner’s new history reassures us that the past is not, as many imagine, any cosier or more patriotic than…
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Welcome to the supermarket class war
How Britain’s upper middle class learned to love expensive carrots
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When did opera become elitist?
Alexandra Wilson’s history of the art form in Britain shows how it used to appeal to everyone, from miners to…
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Why Labour has embraced class politics
Starmer’s cabinet has broken with the model of the Blair years.
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Harvard, elite privilege and the weaponisation of anti-Semitism
How should liberals pick between Donald Trump and this bastion of institutional elitism?
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Who are the white working class?
A deeply reported survey of a much-mythologised slice of Britain reveals a heterogeneous, complex demographic.
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Could John Rawls save the Labour Party?
Rachel Reeves is not just facing an economic crisis – she is suffering from a failure of philosophical imagination.
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Class war: the battle over private schools
Labour must recover its radical tradition and close Britain’s education privilege gap.
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Into the dark wood
My father died long ago. I now understand that he was part of the lost world of the stoical conservative…
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Twilight of the American elite
The revival of liberalism cannot be conducted on Trumpian terms.
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Nancy Mitford, Keir Starmer and the new English class war
Who are “working people” these days anyway?
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Jilly Cooper’s very English fantasies
Her novels are so absurd they are rarely analysed. Can they tell us anything about Britain and class?
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Who are Britain’s new aristocrats?
An elite by inheritance still holds sway but it has been joined by an elite of grafters.
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Keir Starmer, toolmakers and the death of the working-class hero
Why his story of individual aspiration has failed to resonate.
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