(1) Starkey was in a heated discussion with Owen Jones, author of Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class, when he made his remarks during a discussion hosted by Emily Maitlis that also included the writer Dreda Say Mitchell.
(2) "What has happened is that the substantial section of the chavs that you wrote about have become black.
(3) A classic example, she believes, is Little Britain, in which David Walliams blacked up to play the character of Desiree, an obese black woman, and in which so-called "chavs" are ridiculed.
(4) But the one that really jumped out was of a chav-themed school disco: all these rosy-cheeked, foppish-looking public schoolkids dressed in baseball caps and Adidas tracksuits.
(5) Johnson tells the Radio Times that she didn't know that fat people ("classic chavs") could be hungry, until she saw their empty cupboards and their food budget (£3 a day for three people), and what it could and could not buy.
(6) I love her twice as hard for depriving a certain type of viewer of the chaotic chavs-on-tour spectacle they might have been expecting by taking entirely normal holidays and considering sound financial options.
(7) Discussion of the moral deficiency of benefit claimants has long been a substitute for political and economic debate, asylum-seeker is a dirty word, and "chav" is a word that no one wants applied to them.
(8) Jones's Chavs, Andy Merrifield's Magical Marxism, Laurie Penny's collection of her writing Penny Red and Nicholas Shaxson's exposé of tax havens Treasure Islands complete the lineup.
(9) Unusually for the comedy chav character – sadly every soap has one – Beth has been furnished with the requisite parenting skills to clock when something's up with her Craigy.
(10) The headline inside was "Future Bling of England"; the strapline screamed, "Wills wears Chav Gear in Army Snap."
(11) The shortlist Counterpower: Making Change Happen by Tim Gee Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made It edited by Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination by Andy Merrifield Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent by Laurie Penny Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
(12) Class hatred has been siphoned off on to chavs, scroungers, benefit fraudsters, single mothers, all the new untouchables, so that the architects of austerity can justify their cruelty.
(13) It hardly ever has a scandal – the biggest was when a group of 12-year-olds got drunk on vodka – and it is reputed, probably wrongly, to have originated "chav" as a snooty term for the less eligible young men of the town ("Cheltenham average").
(14) And in popular culture, stereotypes that had been given new life in the 1980s eventually went nuclear: the mid-to-late New Labour period, let us not forget, was the era of Little Britain’s council-estate grotesque Vicky Pollard , the hairstyle maligned as the council-house facelift, and the bundling-up of council housing in the same dread category as “chavs” and welfare scroungers.
(15) Over two pages built around a snap of 30 trainee officers at Sandhurst, yesterday's Sun gleefully recounted how the heir to the throne "joined in the fun as his platoon donned chav-themed fancy dress to mark the completion of their first term".
(16) The “mix”, even when it happened, was a mix of the mutually hostile – search for the Greenwich Millennium Village online, to find a host of complaints by rich residents at the fact that sundry “chavs” and “scum” have ended up residing in their stunning luxury living solution.
(17) Now the people that bug me every day are cab drivers and chavs.
(18) His perusal of the entertainment currently offered to undergraduates has only confirmed that the so-called "chav bop" - a disco where you dress up as a working-class person - is an immovable fixture not only at public schools, but also throughout Oxford's colleges.
(19) They want us looking suspiciously and disdainfully in the direction of marginalised individuals; "chavs", "immigrants" and "gays," not in the direction of the institutions who actually damage our society – banks, corporations and the media.
(20) They want to see the back of these TV chavs so they can be left with their Poliakoff and their Potter (as well as their Big Brothers and Embarrassing Illnesses and all their "TV heaven", slumming it choices, obviously) and be served a TV which is essentially much more ... them.
Geordie
Definition:
(n.) A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shortly afterwards normal service was very briefly resumed when, with Cardiff overcommitted to attack, a customary roar greeted Newcastle's third goal, a header from the popular, Geordie-reared substitute Steven Taylor.
(2) Alexander Lebedev's son Evgeny is the chairman of Independent Print, the holding company set up to buy the Independent titles, and its directors also include the editor of the Standard, Geordie Greig, who is the Lebedevs' UK consigliere.
(3) Geordie Greig, the Evening Standard editor, also denied that Sawiris was involved in the talks.
(4) The London Evening Standard distributed 850,000 free copies yesterday, 200,000 more than planned, as part of a promotion to mark a relaunch of the paper under new editor Geordie Greig and owner Alexander Lebedev.
(5) In a word: Hollyoaks has become Geordie Shore and The Only Way Is Essex – as unreal as its purported reality show counterparts.
(6) Lebedev's philanthropic interests also extend to Britain, where he is friends with Geordie Greig, editor of Tatler, and other members of Britain's aristo-celebocracy.
(7) The first tranche of redundancies are expected "within weeks rather than months" after the new editor, Geordie Greig, and management have had time to make assessments and plan for the future.
(8) Liverpool also want Aston Villa's purveyor of wayward crosses Ashley Young and will obviously need a muscular, ponytail-sporting Geordie to get on the end of them; step forward £30m-rated Newcastle United No9 Andy Carroll .
(9) However, new Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig subsequently revealed he paid considerably more but declined to name the price.
(10) And all Geordie hope was extinguished when Krul beat away his shot only to be punished by Adebayor's stunning half-volley.
(11) When asked to define his nationality, Plater's stock response was: "Geordie by birth, Yorkshire by upbringing and now a metropolitan sophisticate."
(12) Horse & Hound was down 6.4% year on year to 61,445 in the second half of 2008, while Tatler, which has just replaced the London Evening Standard-bound editor Geordie Greig with Catherine Ostler, was down 4.9% to 86,107.
(13) That said, the MoS editor, Geordie Greig, has a good record on helping the poor.
(14) "When the new editor [Geordie Greig] came in I went to talk to him about it and decided to stop."
(15) Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig is an enthusiastic proponent of the free model after taking the London paper free.
(16) Tatler editor Geordie Greig, a former Sunday Times journalist, had been lined up for the editorship of the paper, although he may be appointed to a more senior editorial role.
(17) The Children's Society Facebook Twitter Pinterest Last year The Children's Society ran Geordie Magic , which saw a team of magicians engage with members of the public in a street fundraising campaign.
(18) I'm inclined to think it's the former but lot of fans assuming he's just behaving badly," writes depressed Geordie Oliver Lewis.
(19) The tycoon insists he has a "hands off" relationship with both titles, leaving their day-to-day management to their respective editors, Dmitry Muratov and Geordie Greig.
(20) "When we went four goals down I thought the house might come down, but in the end we sent 51,000 Geordies home relatively happy.