Content tagged newstatesman

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... in attending football matches, even when he sits in the best seats, the middle-class fan becomes an honorary proletarian, in more or less the same … dalrymple/9

The middle-class female fan (of whom there are increasing numbers) has a double transformation to undergo: first she must turn herself into what she imagines … dalrymple/5

When someone says that he lacks self-esteem he says it as if he were denied something that is his of right. Merely by virtue of drawing breath, each person … dalrymple/4

Among these is the view that those who are, or have been, seriously ill are heroes and heroines merely by virtue of their present or past suffering. This … dalrymple/3

... the middle classes were persuaded by intellectuals for much of the century that an economy is a zero-sum game, and that they were prosperous because … dalrymple/2

No information whatever has been conveyed by Blastback, only sensation (in my case, the sensation of mild motion sickness). Sensation is much more democratic … dalrymple/1