Monday, April 06, 2015

Down And Outs Are NOT Part Of The Under Class.

We need to be careful with our terms such as 'underclass' and 'down and outs' as most emphatically, these do NOT refer to the same thing at all.

Those who insist on this point may force us into having to create a new definition - 'The self-seeking, criminal, amoral, troublesome parasitical class - maybe?' But mixing these two groups is a deliberate and wanton attempt to muddy the waters.

Allison Pearson.

  So you can imagine how delighted I was to come across the term “far centre”, which was coined by Prof Jonathan Clark, the leading British ...