If you watched last night’s BBC Newsnight Scotland special debate and thought that woman in the back row looked oddly familiar, it was me. If you thought she just looked odd, it probably wasn’t…The audience comprised people who live in Scotland but who didn’t start life there. I was invited along because I’d written a […]
Seven social classes: I’m from the cleaning elite
Did you do it? Did you do the Great British Class Calculator? It’s hard to resist finding out if you’re really who you think you are. What if you’re posher than you feared or more proletariat than you’d hoped? Apparently there are now seven class divisions from the precariat to the elite and we all […]