This week I…

Read People Who Eat Darkness (Richard Lloyd Parry) The murder in 2000 of Lucie Blackman, a young English woman working in Tokyo, caused a media storm at the time. Richard Lloyd Parry’s book was published in 2011; over the intervening period Mr Lloyd Parry spent time with everyone involved in the murder: the Blackman family, […]

Social class – the last barrier

Studying elites and social class is a particular interest of mine – my doctoral research explores issues of culture and identity within one particular elite field, namely the investment management community in Edinburgh. I was therefore very interested to see the recent BBC Two documentary presented by the corporation’s media editor, Amol Rajan. The programme’s […]