What class are you?

April 3, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Are You A Member Of The 'Elite' Or The 'Precariat'? British people no longer fit into three social classes, with only one in seven in the "traditional working class", a new study has suggested. The UK also has an "elite" - just 6% of the population - who have savings of more than £140,000, extensive social contacts and education at top universities, according to the BBC's online Great British Class Survey.  Continue reading... Topless Jihad Day: Femen Declare War On Islam In Wake Of Amina Tyler Storm, Warning 'Our Tits Are Deadlier Than Your Stones' Joss Stone Murder Plot Trial: Junior Bradshaw And Kevin Liverpool Found Guilty Slumbering Black Hole Eats Planet 30 Times Mass Of Jupiter (VIDEO) Father Shoots Family Dog Dead & Cuts It Open To Retrieve Son's Severed Finger Derby House Fire: Parents Guilty Of Manslaughter Of Their Six Children M25 Closed At Lakeside After Fatal Eight-Car Crash Has The Daily Mail Gone Too Far This Time? 'A Person Trying To Molest A Girl Will Get The Shock Of His Life': Anti-Rape Underwear Created By Indian Students Has The Daily Mail Gone Too Far This Time? 'A Person Trying To Molest A Girl Will Get The Shock Of His Life': Anti-Rape Underwear Created By Indian Students 'It's Extremely Unlikely I'll Live Beyond A Year' MATT CARR The Daily Mail: Every Tragedy Is an Opportunity There is no doubt that Michael Philpott is a uniquely revolting piece of work, of the type that shames our species, but the Mail's disgustingly manipulative attempt to use the horrendous deaths of six children as a vindication of the Coalition's ruthless victimisation of the unemployed, is no less repellent. Continue reading... ANDREA MANN You'll Never Live Like Common People, Mr Duncan Smith Now, I don't have anything against rich people. Some of my best friends are rich people, or at least I'd like them to be. What I do have something against is rich people thinking that their situation is remotely comparable to those of the poorest, weakest and most vulnerable in society. Continue reading... MALCOLM PROWLE Are We Sleepwalking Into a Totalitarian Society? It seems to me that 'giving offence' is now one of the most heinous criminal charges on the statute book. If this carries on, we will need to redraft Voltaire's famous saying: "I don't agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it" to read something different Continue reading... NEIL WALLIS Shame as Liberty Turns Its Back on Liberty for Journalists Currently scores of journalists and their families are suffering the horror of the snail-like progress of the Metropolitan Police's Weeting, Elveden and Tuleta Inquiries into alleged press wrong-doing. Many have spent well over a year under arrest and on bail like Mike Sullivan and I did, but their suffering continues. So what has Liberty, supposedly Britain's biggest campaigner for individual rights and at the forefront of the worldwide fight to protect human freedom, had to say about this? Liberty's website declares on its home page "Working to PROTECT CIVIL LIBERTIES, and PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS for everyone". But does that "everyone" not include journalists? Continue reading... DOM AVERSANO Why I Want Iain Duncan Smith to Try Living on £53 a Week The petition is a modern democratic tool, and this one in particular represents over 350,000 people concerned by the welfare reforms. It is Iain Duncan Smith who is obfuscating from serious issues, and refusing so far, to answer in any meaningful way to his electorate. Continue reading... You have received this UK email from AOL (UK) Limited, who provides UK. You can choose to stop receiving these emails at any time, by clicking on UNSUBSCRIBE in any MyDaily email you receive. We respect your privacy and will never forward your data on to a third party without your consent. For full details of AOL's (UK) Limited's policy click here. AOL (UK) Limited believes the information contained in this email to be correct but makes no guarantees as to its accuracy. Copyright © 2012 AOL (UK) Limited AOL (UK) Limited, Shropshire House, 11-20 Capper St, London, WC1E 6JA.