Introduction
1 BBC News, “Homeless People’s Deaths ‘Up 24%’ Over Five Years”, 20 December 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46613609
2 Brook, Orion, O’Brien, David and Taylor, Mark (2018) Panic! Social Class, Taste and Inequalities in the Creative Industries, CreateLondon
3 Brook, Orion, O’Brien, David and Taylor, Mark (2018) There Was No Golden Age: Social Mobility into Cultural and Creative Occupations, SocArXiv, https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7njy3/
4 Hall, Stuart (2017) Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, London: Allen Lane
Education, Education, Education
5 BBC News, “The main elements of the Queen’s Speech on May 14, 1997 upon the two Education Bills”, 1997, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/issues/education.shtml
6 Coughlan, Sean, “Education, Education, Education”, BBC News, 14 May 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6564933.stm
7 Judd, Judith, “Election ’97: Blair pledges 21-Point Plan for Education”, Independent, 15 April 1997, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/election-97-blair-pledges-21-point-plan-for-education-1267253.html
8 Jones, Owen (2011), Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, London: Verso
9 Sidhu, Sunny (2018) “Trends in Self-Employment in the UK: Analysing the Characteristics, Income and Wealth of the Self-Employed”, Office for National Statistics, https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/trendsinselfemploymentintheuk/2018-02-07
10 Turner, Camilla, “Design and Technology GCSE Axed from Nearly Half of Schools, Survey Finds”, Telegraph, 10 March 2017, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/03/10/design-technology-gcse-axed-nearly-half-schools-survey-finds/
11 Coughlan, “Education, Education, Education”
12 Ibid.
13 Tomlinson, Sally (2001), “Education Policy, 1997-2000: The Effects on Top, Bottom and Middle England”, International Studies in Sociology of Education, Volume 11, Number 3, p. 261
14 Jones, Liz, “The Luxury Brand with a Chequered Past, Burberry's Shaken off its Chav Image to Become the Fashionistas' Favourite Once More”, Daily Mail, 2 June 2008, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1023460/Burberrys-shaken-chav-image-fashionistas-favourite-more.html
15 Ratcliff, Rebecca, “I Learned to Teach in the 1980s When All that Mattered was the Child”, Guardian, 22 June 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/jun/22/learned-to-teach-child-headteacher-primary-schools
Cruel Britannia
16 Klein, Naomi (2000) No Logo, London: Fourth Estate, p. 74
17 Scottish Herald, “Labour to Get Help from Man Behind Oasis”, 25 March 1997, https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12332465.labour-get-help-from-the-man-behind-oasis/
18 Boyce, Lee, “Inflation-Busting Football Matchday Ticket Prices Soar by up to 1,000% in Just Two Decades”, This Is Money, 18 August 2011, https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2027382/Premier-League-football-tickets-soar-1-000-decades.html
19 Hancox, Dan (2018), Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime, London: William Collins, p.30
20 Hall, Familiar Stranger, p.177
21 Sayeed, Richard Power (2017) 1997: The Future that Never Happened, London: Zed Books, p.78
22 Guardian, “Lawrences Insist Nothing has Changed as Condon Admits Shame”, 24 February 1999, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/feb/24/lawrence.ukcrime8
23 Hall, Familiar Stranger, p.197
24 Dodd, Vikram, “Police Up to 28 Times More Likely to Stop and Search Black People”, Guardian, 12 June 2012, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/12/police-stop-and-search-black-people
25 Townsend, M, “Racial Bias in Police Stop and Search Getting Worse, Report Reveals”, Guardian, 13 October 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/oct/13/racial-bias-police-stop-and-search-policy-black-people-report
26 Bentham, Martin and Murphy, Joe, “Labour Party is Playing Politics with Race, says Mrs Lawrence”, Telegraph, 22 April 2001, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1316953/Labour-Party-is-playing-politics-with-race-says-Mrs-Lawrence.html
27 Gallup, “2001 Election in the United Kingdom”, https://news.gallup.com/poll/9976/2001-election-united-kingdom.aspx
28 BBC News, “Iraq War Illegal, Says Annan”, 16 September 2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3661134.stm
29 Beaumont, Mark, “Alan McGee: ‘We didn’t realise we were voting in the Hugo Boss version of the Tories’”, Guardian, 7 November 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/07/alan-mcgee-creation-stories-interview
The Lost Decades
30 Cribb, Jonathan and Simpson, Polly (2018), “Barriers to Home Ownership for Young People”, Institute for Fiscal Studies, https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/13475
31 Hall, Stuart (1988) The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left, London: Verso
32 Hall, Familiar Stranger, p. 228
33 Ibid.
34 Wallace, David Foster (1997) “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, London: Little Brown, p. 289
35 Furness, Hannah, “Art World is a ‘Hotbed’ of Corruption, Collector Claims”, Telegraph, 2 June 2016, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/02/art-world-is-hotbed-of-corruption-collector-claims/
36 Brown, Mark, “Tracy Emin: ‘Tories are the Only Hope for the Arts’”, Guardian, 16 May 2011, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture-cuts-blog/2011/may/16/art-emin
37 Hancox, Inner City Pressure, p. 13
38 BBC News, “Graduate Employment ‘at a 17-year high’, 1 November 2010, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11652845
39 Curtis, Polly and Lipset, Anthea, “Class of 200: Up to 40,000 Graduates will Join Jobless Roll”, Guardian, 10 June 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/jun/10/students-higher-education
40 https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/student-revolt-austerity-uk-corbyn-momentum
41 Telegraph, “Nepotism Alive and Well as One in Three Lands Job Through Family Members”, 24 August 2011, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/8719786/Nepotism-alive-and-well-as-one-in-three-lands-job-through-family-members.html
42 Ibid.
43 Nagle, Angela (2017) Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right, London: Zero, p.3
44 Aitkenhead, Decca, “The Interview: American Psycho Author Bret Easton Ellis on Why He Hates Millenialls”, Times, 21 April 2019, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-interview-american-psycho-author-bret-easton-ellis-on-why-he-hates-millennials-0zngpx6pq; Chotiner, Isaac, “Bret Easton Ellis Thinks You’re Overreacting to Donald Trump”, New Yorker, 11 April 2019; Newman, Cathy, “Bret Easton Ellis on Donald Trump: ‘I don’t let myself get trumped by his existence’”, Channel 4, 23 April 2019, https://www.channel4.com/news/bret-easton-ellis-on-donald-trump-i-dont-let-myself-get-trumped-by-his-existence
45 Acker, Kathy and Wark, McKenzie (2015) I’m Very Into You: Correspondence 1955-1996, New York: Semiotext(e), p. 31
The Problem with Inclusion
46 Parry, Josh, “Take a Tour of Manchester City Star Raheem Sterling’s House that he Just Can’t Sell”, Manchester Evening News, 28 March 2016, https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-city-raheem-sterling-house-11104319
47 Linning, Stephanie, “That's a Lot of Sterling! £180,000-a-Week England Flop Raheem Shows Off Blinging House He Bought for His Mum — Complete with Jewel-Encrusted Bathroom — Hours After Flying Home in Disgrace from Euro 2016”, Daily Mail, 30 June 2016, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3667267/That-s-lot-Sterling-England-flop-Raheem-shows-blinging-house-complete-home-cinema-jewel-encrusted-bathroom-fleet-supercars.html
48 Shaheen, Fazia, “‘White Working Class: The Label that Seeks to Divide and Rule”, Guardian, 22 March 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/22/white-working-class-label-minority-ethnic-inequality
49 Belam, Martin, “Alan Sugar Under Fire for ‘Racist’ Senegal World Cup Tweet”, Guardian, 20 June 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/20/lord-sugar-under-fire-over-racist-senegal-world-cup-team-tweet
50 Dallison, Paul, “11 Boris Johnson Diplomatic Gaffes”, Politico, 14 July 2016, https://www.politico.eu/article/11-boris-johnson-diplomatic-gaffes/
51 BBC Newsbeat, “Boris Johnson’s Most Controversial Foreign Insults”, 14 July 2016, http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36793900/boris-johnsons-most-controversial-foreign-insults
52 Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger, p. 196
53 Fisher, Mark (2009) Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, London: Zero Books, p.4
The Problem with Impostor Syndrome
54 Wilson, Claudette, “I Work for $7.40 an Hour at Burger King. What Do You Want to Know?”, 6 August 2013, Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/06/burger-king-fast-food-worker-strike
55 Abrams, Abigail, “Yes, Impostor Syndrome Is Real. Here’s How to Deal With It”, Time, 20 June 2018, http://time.com/5312483/how-to-deal-with-impostor-syndrome/