In a nutshell: Brendan O’Neill, editor of the online magazine spiked and a columnist for The Big Issue and The Australian, has an interesting take on the emergence of “working-class” as an identity category in today’s United Kingdom.
Read O’Neill’s piece:
Condemned to be working-class forever – Telegraph BlogsThe working classes are back! Having taken a break from the public stage for much of the past 20 years (though they still had the occasional walk-on part as threatening chav/lovable rogue in newspaper commentary), the sons and daughters of toil are to the forefront once more.