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Dan Evans

Sociologist and author of "A Nation of Shopkeepers" (Repeater Books, 2023), lecturer at Swansea University and writer on Welsh politics and social class.

Oct 13, 2026

2:50
I was wondering if you could give any examples of... how confused we are over class.
2:57
Yeah, sure thing.
2:58
And yeah, you're right.
2:59
It is an enduring paradox that we are.
3:02
I mean, obviously, I guess on the material sort of objective level, it's an incredibly unequal country with a glaringly obvious class system.
3:12
And if you speak to anyone who's not from the UK and they come in, they're like, You know, it's tangible to other people.
3:18
And obviously that's expressed spatially, you know, like London being this like incredibly rich world city.

14 MINS LATER

17:42
but is that is that true because like i mean like i mean that yeah i think so but sometimes i think like bordeaux is kind of like sad when you do this because like everything you do just seems as you're like doing it for a mark of distinction what if you just really like sourdough

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