Durham in decline? Take another look, Benjamin Myers
Letters: Durham is a world heritage city and culture county that is changing fast, write CllrAmanda Hopgood, Mary Kelly Foy MP and Prof Karen O’Brien
Muslims aren’t single-issue voters. Gaza was a lightning rod for their disaffection
Kenan Malik
A drift from Labour has been as much about domestic issues as sectarian politics
Starmer may be the son of a toolmaker, but he speaks for a very different class – and that’s a problem for Labour
Dan Evans
There is a new ‘professional, managerial class’ running the party, and it has a complex relationship with the working class, says author Dan Evans
June 2024
Could the UK soon have the most working-class cabinet of all time?
Prepare for the toppling of private school politics – and a cultural change within Westminster
John Harris
Weekend
Marina Hyde on Sunak and class, my parachute failed at at 4,000ft, my gaming-addicted son, and a new approach to quitting smoking – podcast
Level the playing field? Many state schools don’t have any left
Students aren’t all superhuman – that’s why means-tested grants must return
Margaret Beckett and her party’s most working-class leader ever
It’s the Sunak syndrome: you’re richer than the king but only ‘pass’ at being posh. That’s the class system for you
Marina Hyde
The affluent can have their souls enriched at university, so why not the poor as well?
Kenan Malik
May 2024
The Post Office Horizon IT scandal is rooted in class prejudice
Cate Blanchett was pilloried for saying she’s ‘middle class’. Here’s why she’s right on the money – in Australia at least
Van Badham
Fewer than one in 10 arts workers in UK have working-class roots
Grief, guilt and white working-class ‘fury’: Death of England heads to London’s West End
Labour should commit to a public housing ministry in its manifesto
Demographics tell a different Tory story
April 2024
UK charities hiring staff with ‘privilege not potential’, report author warns
Exclusive: Working-class people less likely to get jobs in charities than public and private sectors, EY Foundation report finds
We hear about a ‘class ceiling’ in Australian arts. Cultural employers should measure diversity like corporates do
Van Badham
We may get some insight into what we lose from driving poor and working-class kids away from making our pictures and telling our stories
Keir Starmer wants to be seen as a working-class PM. Deeds, not warm words, will determine that
Aaron Sharp
People in my home city of Liverpool still see Labour as a ‘hold your nose’ option. That should worry the leadership, says the Guardian’s assistant national news editor, Aaron Sharp
