Neil Morrissey has claimed working class actors often lose out on big roles to their ‘Oxbridge’ educated peers. Speaking with the Radio Times on Tuesday, the actor, 58, who grew up in a care home in Stoke-on-Trent, told how working class stars such as himself barely land big Global roles as Americans see Brits as ‘fey James Bond-ish types.’ … Read more
‘As a woman I still feel lucky to be there’: Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer says she’s had to work twice as hard for her screen success due to her working class background By Isla Williams For Mailonline Published: 23:12 GMT, 13 February 2021 | Updated: 23:13 GMT, 13 February 2021 Jodie Comer believes that she’s … Read more
White working-class children are UK’s most deprived pupils – and they’ll be hardest hit by Covid fallout too, researchers warn MPs Research was submitted to the Committee Education Select Committee Children eligible for free school meals half as likely to do well in GCSEs as poor people from ethnic backgrounds One Oxford University don said … Read more
Former JCB driver Billy Brown feels Boris has let him down. ‘I thought I was voting for someone with balls,’ he tells me caustically. Billy voted Tory for the first time last December. But he thinks the Covid crisis has seen the Prime Minister lose his way. ‘Boris should have sacked that Cummings fella. Everyone … Read more