Day: 27 August 2026

Quite content, quietly resentful: The rise of the Working Class Tonies

Quite content, quietly resentful: The rise of the Working Class Tonies Girl with Balloon by Banksy

WHILE CULTURAL AND GEOPOLITICAL EXPLANATIONS are often invoked, much of the most durable pressure still sits in what used to be called bread-and-butter politics. I sense a new social type emerging in Britain that doesn’t sit neatly within the country’s inherited class vocabulary. This is not a strict category, but an attempt to name a […]