QUESTION Are there any rules to determine whether a person is working or middle class? This was neatly summed up in Marty Feldman and John Law's famous Class Sketch for The Frost Report in 1966. It ...

MPs may no longer be allowed to claim first class rail journeys on expenses - to the disgust of some. But are those in standard class really any different from travellers who have paid a premium, as ...

When research was released showing that middle class people consume more alcohol and drugs than the poor, it quickly became a headline. Figures about booze and economic class always do. Britons are ...

Measuring a company’s 'class gap' can help organisations diversify their ranks – so why don’t companies do it? Luke, who’s in his early 30s and lives in Northern Ireland, defines ‘working class’ as ...

There are millions of different types of living things on Earth. In order to keep track of them all, scientists put living things into groups based on characteristics that they have that are the same.

Boris Johnson once described the poorest 20 per cent of society as being made up of “chavs, losers, burglars and drug addicts”, it has emerged. The prime minister made the comments during an attack on ...

n the late 1940s, the Eurasian poet Cedric Dover wrote a poem about his racial identity. Entitled The Brown Phoenix, it includes the lines: I am tomorrow’s man/ Offering to share/Love, and the ...