Brendan O’Neill Brendan O’Neill

Damned either way

As someone who was born ‘the other side of the tracks’, I really wanted to like Owen Jones’s book, which sets out to expose how in recent years the working classes have become ‘objects of fear and ridicule’.

issue 02 July 2011

  • Chavs

    Owen Jones

    Verso, pp. 304

  • The Bogan Delusion

    David Nichols

    Affirm Press, pp. 224

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