Working class
What happens to journalism when working-class voices are silenced?
What happens to journalism when working-class voices are silenced?
The discourse around class drowns out plans for progress, all before those actually affected have even cleared their throats, writes Kate Pasola
Olivier-winning theatre maker Jamie Eastlake: ‘Northern voices need to be heard’
Olivier-winning theatre maker Jamie Eastlake: ‘Northern voices need to be heard’
Award-winning theatre maker Jamie Eastlake is taking his play Gerry & Sewell to the West End. He writes about his journey to this point and why northern and working-class voices need to be heard
What’s the most important part of any urban landscape? The people who inhabit it
What’s the most important part of any urban landscape? The people who inhabit it
Transitions gives Ilford residents who may not, by dint of being working people, get access to creative spaces and concepts
Working-class women like Angela Rayner can’t win in politics when they’re demonised in the press
Working-class women like Angela Rayner can’t win in politics when they’re demonised in the press
Forget Xenomorphs: The real threat in Alien was wage inequality and corporate greed
Forget Xenomorphs: The real threat in Alien was wage inequality and corporate greed
Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker: ‘We only have a finite amount of time to do the things we do’
Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker: ‘We only have a finite amount of time to do the things we do’
The modernisers of postwar Britain forgot one vital ingredient
The modernisers of postwar Britain forgot one vital ingredient
Why does everyone keep getting the white working class wrong?
Why does everyone keep getting the white working class wrong?
Letters: Stop assuming everyone with a house is somehow rich and without problems
Letters: Stop assuming everyone with a house is somehow rich and without problems
Why working as a butcher’s boy made me feel like an earlier version of AI
Why working as a butcher’s boy made me feel like an earlier version of AI
The middle class sucked the fun out of owning a dog and football. What’s next?
The middle class sucked the fun out of owning a dog and football. What’s next?
Stephen Graham and Steven Knight on class, boxing and new drama A Thousand Blows
Stephen Graham and Steven Knight on class, boxing and new drama A Thousand Blows
Clara Amfo: ‘You will never lose learning about how somebody else lives differently to you’
Clara Amfo: ‘You will never lose learning about how somebody else lives differently to you’
Brassic writer Danny Brocklehurst on Thatcher, bull semen and why TV needs working-class people
Brassic writer Danny Brocklehurst on Thatcher, bull semen and why TV needs working-class people
The Piano’s Brad Kella: ‘I want to see kids in the care system reach their dreams’
The Piano’s Brad Kella: ‘I want to see kids in the care system reach their dreams’
How chicken factory musical Chuck Chuck Baby became a love letter to working-class women
How chicken factory musical Chuck Chuck Baby became a love letter to working-class women
Travis frontman Fran Healy on unfinished business and why being working class is a superpower
Travis frontman Fran Healy on unfinished business and why being working class is a superpower
The Gathering creator: ‘It’s class, even more than ethnicity, blocking fair representation on TV’
The Gathering creator: ‘It’s class, even more than ethnicity, blocking fair representation on TV’
The problem with UK’s film industry? It’s easier to win an Oscar if you went to private school
The problem with UK’s film industry? It’s easier to win an Oscar if you went to private school
It’s self interest that keeps our class system exactly where it is
It’s self interest that keeps our class system exactly where it is
John Bird: Birthday reflections conjure hopeful feelings
John Bird: Birthday reflections conjure hopeful feelings
TV historian David Olusoga: ‘My family were driven from our home by the National Front’
TV historian David Olusoga: ‘My family were driven from our home by the National Front’
Artist Sarah Lucas on tits, making something out of nothing and ‘living in quite terrible times’
Artist Sarah Lucas on tits, making something out of nothing and ‘living in quite terrible times’
Historian David Olusoga explains why breakdown of social mobility is one of UK’s biggest issues
Historian David Olusoga explains why breakdown of social mobility is one of UK’s biggest issues
Robert Carlyle interview: ‘The Full Monty is highly political’
