In her review of Chavs, Lynsey Hanley—author of the brilliant Estates: An Intimate History—argued that class hatred wasn’t simply ‘a one-way street’, but a ‘collusive, often subtle, process which demeans everyone. In fact a great deal of chav-bashing goes on within working-class neighbourhoods, partly because of the age-old divide between those who aim for “respectability” and those who disdain it.’
