The performance artist fighting class shame with drop scones and dead rats

Catherine Hoffmann is a self-confessed survivor of Britain’s ‘feral underclass’ of the 1970s and 80s. As Stench Wench, she is now stripping half naked and scrabbling in squalor to reclaim a voice for her peersThree minutes into my interview with Catherine Hoffmann, sitting in a cafe in Bow, I notice a thick black hair growing out of my neck. I am horrified. “That’s just what happens,” says Hoffmann, cool as a cucumber. “I’m constantly tweezering, w