Botox, fillers and plastic surgery are becoming increasingly necessary to live up to contemporary beauty standards, creating a beauty tax that is pricing many people out
Oct 04, 2023
It’s been 20 years since Danniella Westbrook was labelled ‘chavtastic’ for wearing full-look Burberry, and yet the nova check remains a weathervane for the UK’s turbulent relationship with class
May 26, 2022
With her documentary, ‘Access To Arts: Breaking the Class Ceiling’, Hannah Karpel presents a damning portrait of the creative industries, a world in which the working-class are in danger of becoming extinct
May 25, 2022
In a head-to-head conversation, the two authors discuss the insidious nature of class in the UK, exploring how it affects taste, healthcare, the internet, and our radical imagination
May 16, 2022
From middle class ‘passing’ to playing up to stereotypes, writer Gina Tonic explores how our backgrounds and upbringings affect our experience of work
May 13, 2022
With deep-rooted class prejudices still in the national consciousness, people are feeling the pressure to change their accents in the workplace
May 11, 2022
Boarding schools may produce leaders – but do they produce good leaders?
May 09, 2022
The NCTJ has found that journalists are almost twice as likely as the general population to come from advantaged backgrounds
May 06, 2022
As part of our Class Ceiling series, we hear from Chardine from Big Joanie – a feminist punk band from London – about her experiences as a Black, working-class woman in the contemporary UK music industry
Nobody chooses the circumstances they’re born into – including the rich
Designers, photographers, and more weigh in on the realities of being part of an industry built on elitist hierarchies, and the hurdles they’ve had to overcome to ‘make it’ in fashion
May 05, 2022
While ‘marrying up’ or ‘marrying down’ isn’t as scandalous as it was 100 years ago, material inequality continues to affect relationships in 2022
We all love to exaggerate about how humble and hard-done-by we are – but we also have to recognise the ways that we benefit from how the world is organised
May 04, 2022
Over a decade after his seminal book Chavs was first published, Jones discusses whether – after Brexit, Corbyn, and Boris Johnson – his political thesis has withstood the test of time
May 03, 2022
In our new Class Ceiling series, we unpack how class actually affects young people today – from our jobs, to the way we have sex, to our general experience of the world
