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What is Middle Britain?

You’ve probably heard of the expression banded about in the press, by politicians and political commentators – Middle Britain. Ed Miliband talks of the ‘squeezed middle’. What about middle income, middle class? The mean (or is it median?) of the British population these days seems to hold centre stage wherever you look. From column inches to rolling news. A fiercely contested economic and political battleground, where exactly is Middle Britain?

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Lend us a fiver?

It’s been all the rage over the last year or so. Debt. People just can’t get enough of it. The talk of the town, of pubs, clubs and dinner parties from Athens to Altrincham to Alabama, debt in all it’s shapes and forms, and in particular LARGE debt seems to have captured the public imagination like nothing before.

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