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Ketamine has become the drug of choice at middle-class dinner parties, as well as cocaine, for those earning more than £52,000 per year. People in this top income bracket were more likely than those earning less to take the powerful sedative ketamine, which is renowned for its use by vets on horses. The popularity of … Read more
Middle-class cocaine users earning more than £52,000 a year helped fuel a 20 per cent surge in drug seizures, the latest figures reveal. Figures from the Home Office reveal drug seizures across England and Wales increased by 20 per cent in a year, with 183,068 taking place in the year to March. Seizures by Border … Read more
The middle-class capital gains raid: Heat on Rishi Sunak over tax watchdog’s plan for a £90bn hit on property owners, savers and investors Middle-class savers and entrepreneurs face being hammered by a tax raid Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) recommended increasing CGT rates Experts warned investors and entrepreneurs to be on ‘high alert’ By James … Read more
From Ocado deliveries to food-bank handouts: Middle-class ‘new hungry’ are being forced to claim benefits for the first time as Covid destroys jobs Food charity claims emergence of ‘newly hungry’ group of middle-class workers Group are mostly younger people with mortgages, cars and credit cards They have suffered Covid-related job losses and gaps in social … Read more
The camera pans round to a bathroom, where a masked figure pours milk into a bath filled with rosebuds. In said bath reclines a glamorous young woman in a sparkly dress, one glistening bare leg emerging from the milky surface. As the camera zooms in on her, she takes off her mask, blowing a kiss. … Read more
Think of a phrase that best describes the celebrated naturalist Sir David Attenborough and ‘middle-class hypocrite’ certainly isn’t one that springs to mind. Yet the man widely considered to be one of our national treasures recently confessed that he is one. In his new film, A Life On Our Planet, out next week, Sir David … Read more
I’m a middle-class hypocrite: David Attenborough admits eating free-range meat troubles him because of its effect on the planet Veteran broadcaster, 94, said his conscience ‘troubles’ him when he eats meat He added: ‘If we all ate only plants, we’d need only half the land we use now’ Comments come ahead of the launch of … Read more
Britain pours tens of millions of aid money into African five-star hotels, Indian celebrity chef’s cookware brand and Kenyan coffee shops CDC Group is supposed to make investments to benefit world’s poorest places It pumped £43million into international business hotel chain Onomo since 2017 It also invested into hotel chain Azalai which owns five-star hotels … Read more
Extinction Rebellion supporters in last year’s protests were overwhelmingly middle class, highly-educated women from the south of England, a new study has found. The research shows the Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists who brought London to a standstill last year had a much broader and more diverse age profile than previous environmental direct action protests. Academics … Read more
Fifteen years ago, Christine Handy’s life was fizzing with opportunity and new beginnings. At 40, she was financially secure and living mortgage-free in a handsome five-bedroom townhouse. A part-time job provided a balance to caring for three young children, and, divorced from her wealthy Cotswold landowning husband, she was happy in a new relationship. Today, … Read more