Gary Stevenson and how class signifiers shape our perceptions of authority | Letter

Carla Keen on the cultural signals we attach to how people speak, in response to a review on a documentary hosted by the inequality campaignerLucy Mangan’s description of Gary Stevenson as having an “adolescent bullishness” raises a wider question about how class shapes perceptions of authority (How to Get Filthy Rich With Gary Stevenson review – how did this end up such an embarrassment?, 8 July). I am an artist from a working-class background working in theatre, and I a