Grindle Row
"I asked him if he knew anyone who'd started their own business. 'Besides selling ganja?' he replied, finding himself funny."
Spotlight
The Power of a Happy Meal
"This was not about nutrition. It was not about filling them up. It was absolutely not about the peace of sharing a meal. It was about belonging in a society that had no place for us."
Don’t You Dare Tell Me That!
At school, pupils and teachers bullied Louise Powell because her parents got Income Support. She found solace and friendship in greyhounds and racing. But then the bullies came back.
David Olusoga on Home and Belonging
How the working-class historian learned to reject his rejection
“Wuthering Heights” Review: Problems Aren’t Only About Race and Class
The issues with Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights run deeper than its awful casting.
Davina Quinlivan’s Loving Gaze
The Shalimar author’s new memoir explores her working-class childhood and Anglo-Burmese heritage. She talks to Richard Benson about the art of imaginative memoir”, growing up near Heathrow airport, how to be present and what makes modern work rubbish
The Working Class Library Episode 6: Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Kevin Barry joins Claire Malcolm, chief executive of New Writing North, and Richard Benson, editor of The Bee, to discuss Frank McCourt’s 1996 memoir Angela’s Ashes.
The Silence Between Fields
In the Northern Irish countryside, the land held identity tightly. Too tightly for some.
The Gift
The bus was empty but for one passenger who sat halfway down the seats on the lower deck. The woman was the man’s wife and the boy’s mother and she was leaving.
I’m a Leaseholder Get Me Out of Here!
Buying a council house is supposed to give working-class people the rights and privileges of middle-class homeowners. But it doesn’t.
