Mark Liam Piggott

“About chuffing time, you la-di-da southern Jessies. Such was my reaction on learning the BBC is to employ more horny-handed sons of toil like me, finally defining working class as a protected characteristic — like race. The trouble being, in our post-industrial era, it’s harder to identify someone’s class than their ethnicity, as the following example demonstrates…”

Read the rest of my latest Times “Thunderer” here (paywall).