Class issues
The Guardian view on working-class heritage: smokehouses, smithies and so much more | Editorial
Editorial: History is not just about castles and palaces. Welcome changes in priorities are ramping up the value placed on an industrial past
Editorial
26, Nov, 2023 @5:00 PM
A vacuous, amoral elite who lost the plot. Saltburn or the Covid inquiry? It’s hard to tell | Catherine Bennett
According to Sir Patrick Vallance’s evidence, figures ‘bamboozled’ Boris Johnson. Did he learn only entitlement at Eton?
Catherine Bennett
26, Nov, 2023 @6:30 AM
Pioneering documentary maker and ‘father of reality TV’ Paul Watson dies aged 81
The film-maker, who is credited with inventing the fly-on-the-wall serial in shows like The Family and Sylvania Waters, gained fame for giving voice to the working classes
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
20, Nov, 2023 @6:17 PM
Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes
Carbon emissions of richest 10% are up to 40 times bigger than poorest, and ignoring divide may make ending climate crisis impossible, experts say
Damian Carrington Environment editor
20, Nov, 2023 @4:03 PM
Five years on, the world is failing to learn the gilets jaunes’ lesson about class and climate | Oliver Haynes
From the reaction to Ulez in London to heat pumps in Germany, eco-policies are still too often felt as sanctions on working people, says Oliver Haynes, a freelance journalist
Oliver Haynes
17, Nov, 2023 @7:00 AM
Big business benefited from slavery – let it pay reparations | Letters
Letters: Readers reflect on the business of slavery and who should refund the unpaid wages from which enslavers profited so handsomely
10, Nov, 2023 @6:15 PM
Cycle lanes are for everyone, not just champagne socialists | Letters
Letters: Kit Jackson and Sarah Berkin respond to the suggestion that we don’t need more cycle lanes as they are not widely used
02, Nov, 2023 @5:43 PM
Bad Taste by Nathalie Olah review – the good, the gauche and the ugly
The author of Class dissects the cultural codes of the Instagram generation – but there are some curious omissions
Richard Godwin
02, Nov, 2023 @9:00 AM
Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke review – an upper-class monster
A timely reissue for this gem from the archives, in which an ex-public schoolboy makes a gruesome fall from grace
M John Harrison
28, Oct, 2023 @6:30 AM
Labour must pay attention to class politics | Letters
Letters: In a society where work no longer pays the bills and social mobility has slowed, class is not something you can leave behind, writes Neil Schofield-Hughes. Plus letters from Martyn Taylor and Lesley Moore
16, Oct, 2023 @4:42 PM
I went to Labour conference in search of its plans for radical reform – what I found gave me hope | Polly Toynbee
Labour’s frontbench is promising to tackle child poverty and to make work pay, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee
13, Oct, 2023 @9:17 AM
Keir Starmer’s speech: Labour has to ignore the glitter and go for gold | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to the opposition leader’s keynote address at the party conference in Liverpool
11, Oct, 2023 @5:01 PM
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