Lynsey Hanley: how I became middle class

Governments of every stripe tend to see social mobility as a Good Thing. And so did Lynsey Hanley – but there was a psychological cost, as she recounts in this extract from her new book• Read a Q&A with Lynsey Hanley hereI can’t remember the day I started calling dinner “lunch” and tea “dinner”, but I know that it happened, because that’s what I call them now. That must mean I’m middle-class, where once I was working-class; though, no matt