Related Posts with Thumbnails
The Book

Out now at Amazon | Waterstones

Middle Class Handbook on Twitter
Chattering Class

10 pieces of chat for the price of 1

Continental meat sales are soaring

We just can’t get enough chorizo

While cider sales plummet

We blame the mildly annoying ice-in-the-pint-glass malarky

Could it be time for the shandy’s glorious revival?

Yes, @DaniBevins, it really could be

M&S new fashion range seems to be going down well

Phew, keen to get things back to normal ASAP

Great Gatsby themed everything

Enough art deco already

Pound shops thriving in MC areas

There’s still kudos in being a bargain hunter

Morrisons and Ocado going into business together

Ooh, Waitrose, watch out

Larders

We are so feeling the love

Citizens Advice urging ban on cold calling

And not before time!

WHSMith

Ridiculously horrible but basically the heart of today’s sad high street

Latest Comments
The Periodic Table of the Middle Class
This form does not yet contain any fields.

    The Psycho-Yuppies:
    Ben and Chloe

     

    This profile is under construction, but here's a brief summary from the blog:

    A year or so, ago, a lot of liberal media commentators claimed that the 2008 crash would end the period of corporate greed, and bring in a new, more socially-aware age with a respect for a stronger Government.

    A year in, it seems possible that quite the opposite will happen, as a young generation of business people and financiers looks at the mess, and the weakness of the Government and concludes they might as well be even more self-serving and ruthless. Add to this some nostalgia for the 1980s and the Gordon Gekko ethic as seen in the Spectator, and the increasing celebration of professional business-bastard on TV (Peter Jones, Alan Sugar, Gordon Ramsay) and the alleged growth of libertarian ideas among young conservative MPs, and you have the right conditions for a growth in psycho-yuppies  like Ben "I had a place at Sandhurst" Taylor from this year's The Apprentice.