Living in class limbo

身处阶层悬空之地

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2025-04-28

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What does it mean to be working class in Britain in 2025? Danny Lavelle reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, a personal journey through the British class system.

  • Okay, so I am in sunny Royton in Oldham in Greater Manchester and I'm...

  • About to call in on Guardian writer Danny Lovell.

  • He's staying with his brother at the moment.

  • Blinds are drawn, but I hope he's remembered I'm coming.

  • You have remembered.

  • I was just worried that the blinds were shut.

  • Danny is 38 years old.

  • He's a published author and an award-winning freelance writer.

  • But he still can't afford his own place and is currently bouncing between his brother's council house and his mum's home.

  • There are a lot of contradictions in Danny's life.

  • He's hard to pigeonhole, especially when it comes to class,

  • a topic he's been obsessed with and confused by for as long as he can remember.

  • So, you know, my early years would have made me quite bourgeois.

  • And then, you know, my later life would have made me a proletarian, I suppose.

  • And now, obviously, I write books and I write for The Guardian, which is proper bougie, isn't it?

  • I felt like I was in class limbo, just not quite fitting in with any particular class.

  • Danny has been on a voyage of discovery to try to work out what class he is.

  • It always confused me.