Closing parks during a lockdown is inhumane, especially when housing is so cramped and gardens a rare luxury.

Inside the wild world of college cheerleading

Class, community and capitalism

New Netflix series Cheer is filled with high stakes stunts and drama – but it can also teach us a lot about America’s class problem.

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The great myth of the British working class

A flat cap fallacy

Treating the working class as homogenous, white, and uniquely motivated by very specific political ideologies is damaging.

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Behind the walls of Brazil’s secretive gated communities

This side of paradise

In Paradise Garden, Giovana Schluter captures the strange world of gated communities hoping to get to the heart of their emptiness.

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Television has always hated working class people

Good riddance Jeremy Kyle

Jeremy Kyle may finally be gone, but what it stands for – the hateful demonisation of working-class communities – remains stronger than ever.

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This year I learnt… to not feel ashamed of being working class

From Grenfell to universal credit, 2017 exposed how working class Brits continue to be treated with contempt. For Tom Rasmussen, this was the year of defiantly taking pride in having working class roots.

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Privileged kids need to stop fetishising working class culture

From Where I Stand

Sure, these guys embrace elements of working class culture when it's en vogue, but while retaining their contempt for working class people, explains Dawn Foster.