Pawn shop bars and poverty chic: how working-class life was colonised

From indie nights in working men’s clubs to a bar inside an abandoned launderette, working-class life is being transformed into middle-class lols“Why’s there a telly in the window?”
It’s an odd question to be asking on a Saturday night in Stevenson Square, the booming heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter. The questioner – a raven-haired clubber in her early 20s – looks puzzled. After all, we’re not standing outside an electronics shop, but