Showing posts with label working class. Show all posts
Showing posts with label working class. Show all posts
Sunday, 15 December 2019

I went to the pub last night (thoughts on the election)

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Last night I went to the pub. This wasn't a special occasion, just what I do pretty much every Saturday night. The Fleece in Culling...
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Sunday, 11 February 2018

You're not cosmopolitan, you're privileged

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Striking observation from Joan C Williams, author of White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America. From an interview about ...
Monday, 22 January 2018

Those folk you think are thick. They're probably wiser than you.

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It seems - albeit a little tentatively - that people from 'lower social classes' are, in some contexts, wider than us clever folk ...
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Friday, 7 July 2017

Smoking bans - "you've taken away one of the few nice things in the lives of people you've never met."

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From Old Mudgie (or his comment section to be accurate): It is this type of pub that has been murdered by the smoking ban. Not the sort of...
Friday, 17 June 2016

It's not for the left to decide what is freedom

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Freedom... we're talking bout your freedom Freedom to choose what you do with your body Freedom to believe what you like Free...
Monday, 18 April 2016

Drink, smoke, vape, eat fast food? You're not welcome in the Labour Party

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Mr R. McDonald - Labour Membership refused I don't know about you, dearest reader, but I'm not at all surprised to read that the Lab...
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Saturday, 22 November 2014

We have Mr Potter's "discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class" - and the left don't like it!

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There was a time when the mass of the population – you can call this the ‘working class’ if you like – looked like the crowd at one...
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Sunday, 16 November 2014

Tiptoeing back to the old conservatism...

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**** For a while, from the time Auberon Waugh called Maggie's 'mad period' in the late 1980s through to just a few years ago, ...
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Sunday, 2 November 2014

Simon Danczuk has a point about immigration and wages - just not a very good one

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**** Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP for Rochdale and a rare working-class voice in the Labour Party has written a passionate - almost emotio...
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Monday, 4 August 2014

Quote of the day - green politics and the privileges of the wealthy

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**** It's from Joel Kotkin and speaks of California. But it could apply in the UK - indeed in any European nation: But now, having...
Sunday, 22 June 2014

The Labour Party: Patronising working people since 1900

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**** Chuka Umunna, a Labour Party frontbencher is continuing the champagne socialist tradition of patronising ordinary people . In this c...
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Thursday, 27 February 2014

Rebuilding urban conservatism isn't about working class voters

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**** There has been much talk of how the Conservative Party should muscle its way into Labour territory and become the 'Workers' ...
Friday, 3 January 2014

How the ragged troused philanthropists were right...

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**** 'The present system means joyless drudgery, semi-starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for it and uphold it. Let...
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012

This isn't public health it's an attack on the lifestyles of the poor

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**** I want to be angry. I really do. So we are launching a 10-week consultation, seeking views on five key areas:   a ban on multi-b...
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Thursday, 8 September 2011

I do rather wish Guardian columnists would stop treating the working class as imbeciles

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**** It is well known among the cognoscenti that the adverts we see contains special powers that make it nearly impossible for the innoce...
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Thursday, 17 March 2011

The Guardian's writers never check their facts do they? The example of Richard Seymour

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**** Too much of our politics is dominated by the discussion of class – working-class, middle-class, upper-class and so on. These terms m...