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What Comedy Can Learn From 'Plebgate'

Hugh Bassett | Posted 27.03.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Glee, Andrew Mitchell, Posh, Comedy, Watergate, Pastygate. Plebgate, UK Press, Upper Class, Class, Aristocracy, UK Media, Working Class, UK Universities & Education News
Hugh Bassett

We have developed a shame around being posh. It's okay to laugh at someone who calls their father 'daddy, but not at someone who calls them 'dad'.

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Prejudice Towards the 'Posh' Isn't Unfair - It's an Attitude More People Need to Take

Alex MacDonald | Posted 13.08.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Class Prejudice, Prejudice Against Posh, Made in Chelsea, Middle Class, Classism, David Mitchell, Upper Class, Working Class, UK Politics News
Alex MacDonald

Watching Sunday Morning Live with Francis Boulle from Made in Chelsea this week kind of pushed me over the edge - the suggestion that classism or prejudice of people based on their upper-class backgrounds is akin to racism was just too much to take.

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Richard Branson Is So Cool: Modest Virgin Boss Serves Up Ice Cubes Shaped Like His Own Face

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 02.07.2012 | UK
Read More: Virgin Atlantic, UK News, UK Travel, Ice-Cubes, Richard Branson, Sir Richard Branson, Upper Class, Slideexpand, UK News

Upper class passengers on Virgin Atlantic flights can now enjoy their journeys with a likeness of Richard Branson grinning at them from within their d...

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Toff cat

James Jackson | Posted 09.12.2011 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Toffs, British Humour, Upper Class, David Cameron, Middle Class, Class, Monty Python, UK Lifestyle News
James Jackson

'I was as polite to him as his breath would allow...'. So wrote Jane Austen in a letter to her sister Cassandra, displaying the kind of withering ins...

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