How terribly posh to be middle-class

Sometimes, it’s the small situations that reveal your own biases to you.

Sometimes, it’s the small situations that reveal your own biases to you.

The other day, while passing through a radio station, I was asked for my opinion as to the quality of two wannabe radio programme contributors.

Ears pricked up, I listened back to recorded interviews with the pair. What I heard left me confused.

The first applicant was competent, but she didn’t sound terribly focused. The second interviewee was better – much ...