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Middle England is substantially more Brexity than Remainers may realise.

Tony Blair forced his troops to dress in suits to impress middle England.

In its two decades the show has expanded its reach well beyond middle England.

It is pure Middle England, close to the national average on most economic and demographic indicators.

The Daily Mail, lodestar of middle-England conservatism, said that there was "much to welcome" in it.

Nobody's surprised to see Disclosure top the charts or Rihanna at a muddy free party in Middle England.

Not that it will be any consolation to the burghers of Middle England, preparing for a stint behind bars.

I think in a place like the UK, it's very right wing in middle England and places like that.

If what I&aposm picking up from Middle England, their sense of betrayal of what she&aposs doing with Brexit.

"Middle England" sees the fictional circle widening to incorporate a richer, more diverse cast grappling with both personal and political angst.

MACCALLUM: -- and Michigan and Wisconsin, in Middle England people are saying that they want to have control of their own country.

Opinion polls have depicted a deeply divided nation, with big differences between pro-EU London and Scotland and eurosceptic Middle England.

" Middle England did not treat this as a referendum on European Union membership but as a plebiscite on one thing: "immigration.

Despite his Middle-England surname, his great-grandfather was a Turkish politician, Ali Kemal, who was lynched by pro-Ataturk nationalists.

"Middle England" is a compelling state-of-the-nation novel, full of light and shade, which vividly charts modern Britain's tragicomic slide.

Birmingham is a strong option as the second city by population and the most geographically and figuratively "Middle England" of the big cities.

Moore, who has lived in the middle-England town of Northampton his whole life, is legendary for his opposition to large entertainment companies.

Britain is deeply divided on EU membership, with big differences between older and younger voters, and between pro-EU London and Scotland and eurosceptic middle England.

For all our much-touted faux-tolerance that kind of undisguised, unbridled, bare-faced, arse-out-for-the-photographer mindlessness wasn't permissible in puritanical Middle England.

I might not be on first-name terms with Jesus anymore, but there's something about the restfulness of Middle England Christianity that I find irresistibly peaceful.

Opinion polls have depicted a deeply divided nation, with big differences between older and younger voters, and between pro-EU London and Scotland, and eurosceptic Middle England.

Particularly damning is the picture in Nuneaton, the Middle England marginal whose solid backing for the Tories last year became emblematic of Mr Miliband's shortcomings and defeat.

Opinion polls have depicted a deeply divided nation, with big differences between older and younger voters, and between pro-EU London and Scotland and eurosceptic Middle England.

But it's also provided a valuable opportunity to remind ourselves why this particular young man, born to a middle-class, middle-England family in 1564, still captivates us.

" Dominic Grieve, a longtime Tory who broke with Mr. Johnson over his Brexit strategy and was purged from the party, said the Conservatives had "hemorrhaged support from Middle England.

A newly elected Conservative Party leader David Cameron was encouraging middle England to hug a hoodie, while describing hoodies as a 'uniform of a rebel army of young gangsters.

Middle England may have a lot of bloodlust lurking in its outsider-hating, Brexit-voting subconscious, but it certainly wouldn't stand for the brutal slaughter of animals in the arena.

Now the city is hosting 10 shows addressing its relationship with Europe, the European Union, and the migrants whose spectre has historically instilled fear in many residents of middle England.

Today, Stampp's hometown seems to blur into all of middle England: the same chain restaurants as everywhere else, the same green spaces strategically placed between busy roads, the same mostly white demographic.

Voters in Middle England, doubtful about the party's competence and credibility even before its new leader took the reins, have been unimpressed by his tenure—as the burghers of Nuneaton willingly attest.

While his supporters point to an influx of new members, mainly middle-class, college-educated people in Southeast England, they ignore an exodus of support in "Middle England" and Labour's industrial heartlands.

The Conservatives calculated that working-class voters would instinctively prefer Mrs May, a proud product of middle England, to Mr Corbyn, a hardline leftist who represents a trendy bit of London, Islington North.

Under Tony Blair, Labour was criticised for over-relying on focus groups, with political principles thrown out of the window at the behest of a small number of voters in Middle England swing seats.

Over the next seven weeks they will unload filing cabinets full of documents about his friendly relations with the IRA, Hamas, Hugo Chávez and others who are not well thought of in middle England.

It recently got rid of free food and drink in economy class on most short-haul flights (instead it is selling sandwiches and Percy Pig sweets from Marks & Spencer, another company beloved by Middle England).

But they also include the millions of perfectly boring, perfectly suburban, perfectly Middle-England types who simply recognise that Britain and the rest of the world are interdependent—and that this fact is, on balance, a good thing.

But under Tony Blair nearly everything the party did was calibrated to fit the interests and outlooks of voters in decisive Middle England seats; the former prime minister recalls his connection to such voters as a sort of love affair.

"I think that both Trump and May actually have strong appeal to Middle America and Middle England, and I think there are some similarities in their approach," said Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation.

LONDON — For insight into the conservatism of Middle England, it's worth considering the case of The Henley Standard, a weekly newspaper in Oxfordshire, which recently found itself in hot water over its decision to retire "Sir" as the form of address for letters to the editor.

Meanwhile, mainstream media and entertainment treats HIV as either a historical footnote or glosses over the subject entirely – a fact proven once again by the recent Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which arguably neuters his radical legacy by creating a pleasant, 'safe' narrative that won't piss off Middle England – or, of course, hinder its box-office numbers.

"In both Middle America and Middle England, among both rednecks and chavs, voters who have had more than they can stomach of being patronized, nudged, nagged and basically treated as diseased bodies to be corrected rather than lively minds to be engaged are now putting their hope into a different kind of politics," Brendan O'Neill wrote in The Spectator.

In the heat of the EU referendum campaign I have attended a series of events (for the Leave side, it must be said) at which placid, middle-class Middle England types have parroted not just the usual gormless claims about MPs ("They're all the same", "They're all in it for themselves") but have tipped into outright conspiracy theorising.

Double sex-murderer Rurik Jutting – the Bank of America-Merrill-Lynch investment banker from comfortable middle England who was jailed for life by a Hong Kong court on November 225 – turned inhumanity into a sick art-form for the digital age when he tortured 22002-year-old Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, from Indonesia, then cut their throats before recording his thoughts about what he had done on his mobile phone.

I mean, Tom, when you look at what we saw today out there, how much do you think it reflects what&aposs going on with people in this country because we&aposve heard a lot about a mood being somewhat different in London than it is in middle England and other parts of the U.K. TOM ROGAN, COMMENTARY WRITER, WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Well, I think as Adam says the polling data suggests that President Trump is personally unpopular but beyond that in terms of the relationship of the United States in the United Kingdom, I think is one of the gentlemen Ben interviewed -- was interviewing there said the systemic nature of the cooperation on defense intelligence industry really means that actually most -- a lot of those people who had been out on the streets today would favor a strong relationship with the United States.

Members of the Countryside Alliance may be considered to be typical of Middle England, while members of the Women's Institute have been described as "the backbone of Middle England".

Typically English activities such as village cricket matches popularly evoke an image of Middle England The phrase "Middle England" is a socio-political term which generally refers to middle class or lower-middle class people in England who hold traditional conservative or right-wing views.

It's reassuring to see that not even persistent wintriness can defeat the combined forces of middle England and rampant calypso.

In British politics, Middle England is considered as a grouping to be especially important because of its potential to swing the results of United Kingdom general elections; according to the polling company MORI, Middle England is said to make up 25% of the UK population, its members are not devoted to any particular party and may be swayed by successful political campaigning, and many live in marginal constituencies. Middle England was also considered to be a major force in the vote to leave the European Union during the 2016 European Union membership referendum.

The following year, he left the party (which by then had been renamed the Green Party), disillusioned by its increasing centralisation and by the campaign for celebrities to join and promote the party. In 1992, he joined the Movement For Middle England,Movement For Middle England minutes, 1992.West Mercia Network (MFME), inaugural meeting minutes, 22. 11. 1992.

Terror From Beyond Middle England is a novel by Sarah Crabtree, published by ENC Press. The novel was nominated for a British Fantasy Society award.

The term has been compared to “Worcester woman” — Middle England voters who were seen as key to the success of New Labour under the leadership of Tony Blair.

The current Baron affiliated to the castle grounds stems to a family in middle England from the early eighteenth century. The current Baron through ancestral lines is Jonathan L H Sinclair.

I find this incredibly painful to see how we dismiss the most desperate people in our society. It's easily done. It plays to the tabloids, to the Middle-England xenophobes. It just makes me furious.

Coe has published two sequels to the book. The Closed Circle picked up the characters' lives at the very end of the 1990s. Middle England opens in 2010 and addresses issues such as Brexit, Donald Trump and climate change.

Crime and Social Control in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town. London: Routledge. There are also some wider cultural influences. For example, some have argued that modern times have left people especially sensitive to issues of safety and insecurity.

Anna Sewell's home in Old Catton Sewell's birthplace in Church Plain, Great Yarmouth has been the home to a museum and a tea shop.Tea shop info Retrieved 10 May 2014The literary guide and companion to Middle England by Robert M. Cooper. p. 306. Ohio University Press. (1993) .

The perceived image of > the " – Day" became generally Middle England, Middle of the Road and Middle > Aged. Despite the event losing cultural significance, it was held again in 1997, with the date moving to August. The List, while reviewing France's National Music Day, reported that the UK efforts had failed to catch-on.

Middle England is a 2018 novel by Jonathan Coe. It is the third novel in a trilogy, following The Rotters’ Club (2001) and The Closed Circle (2004). The novel explores the experiences of characters from those earlier novels against the backdrop of the major events taking place before, during and after the Brexit referendum.

Oil Painting presented to William Wycliffe Spooner on his 70th birthday by his employees. Inscription reads "Presented by the employees on 23 December 1952, In commemoration of his 70th birthday as a token of esteem and affection." Born in Oxford on 29 March 1882, William Spooner read engineering at Trinity College, CambridgeSpooner, A. (1980). The Spooners of Middle England.

The BBC described the Kent town of Tunbridge Wells as the "spiritual home" of Middle England, with particular reference to the popular characterisation of "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells", the pseudonym of an imaginary, incensed letter-writer. Emphasising its lack of geographical location, the writer Nick Inman likened Middle England to J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth: "We know everything about it except where it is". The term is used by journalists to refer to the presumed views of mainstream English and to a lesser extent British people, as opposed to minorities of all types (the rich or the poor, ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, the politically active, the intelligentsia, etc.). In particular, it is increasingly used to denote the more right-wing views of those who are not in such minorities.

Originally from Bradford, Myers has been based in the Black Country town of Stourbridge, in the West Midlands, since graduating from art school in Newcastle in 1969. His photographs between 1972 and 1979 were all made within walking distance of his home, mostly of people and places that he knew."John Myers: Middle England". Ikon Gallery, 15 August 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2017 His self-published book from this period, Middle England (1974), contains black and white portraits of individuals and families, which were also included in his first major exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, in 2012. His black and white photographs of "garages, TVs, electricity substations, new builds and his neighbours" in The World is not Beautiful: 1973–1981 (published 2017) were also made within walking distance of his house.

He also presented the archive-based Nonsense at Noon on the Home Service, 1965–66. "His facetious patrician tones every third Monday morning, his sense of the absurd, his ear for a word mistakenly taken out of context, his famous cat Perseus, delighted much of middle England as much as it infuriated a small minority."--Glyn Worsnip.Donovan, Paul (1991) The Radio Companion.

The town was chosen because it was seen as the "quintessentially English town" due to the Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells phrase. Although most Americans would not fully understand the reference, the town was nonetheless considered a symbol of middle England. The town is a Conservative stronghold and was the only council area in Kent to vote by a majority for Remain during Brexit.

In December, journalist Max Foster coined the phrase, "the Banksy effect", to illustrate how interest in other street artists was growing on the back of Banksy's success. "Banksy Effect" mentioned near end. On 21 February 2007, Sotheby's auction house in London auctioned three works, reaching the highest ever price for a Banksy work at auction: over £102,000 for Bombing Middle England.

The term "Middle Australian" is a socio-political term which generally refers to middle class or lower-middle class Australian people who hold traditional or right-wing views. As such, it does not refer to the geographical middle of the country, but rather to the socio-economic middle (as is also the primary meaning of the monikers "Middle America" or "Middle England").

"Police broke rules in hunt for killers of PC who fell victim to bloodlust of the mob". The Guardian. The press coverage of the trial included the publication on day two, by The Sun, of a notorious close-up of a half- smiling Silcott, one that "created a monster to stalk the nightmares of Middle England", as journalist Kurt Barling put it.Barling, Kurt (27 February 2004).

The distinctive theme music was "In Party Mood" by Jack Strachey. This music, much like "Puffin' Billy", the theme to Children's Favourites, has latterly been used frequently in other media as a signifier for 1950s Middle England, for example in a number of TV adverts and in the Comic Strip's parodies of the Famous Five, Five Go Mad in Dorset and Five Go Mad on Mescalin.

The origins of the term "Middle England" are not known. Writer Ian Hislop found evidence of the British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury's using the term in 1882, but it did not gain popularity at the time. Modern popular usage of the phrase has been attributed to Margaret Thatcher who, according to the historian David Cannadine, introduced the expression into political phraseology by adopting Richard Nixon's concept of "Middle America".

In 1981 she published Paint Magic,Paint Magic, Frances Lincoln Ltd which popularized the practices of stenciling, stippling and the pleasures of festoon blinds. It went on to sell over a million copies around the world. At a time when DIY meant rawlplugs and melamine kitchen units, Innes introduced middle England to a world of pelmets and passementerie. In 1983 she became the Design Editor of Cosmopolitan magazine.

Euroscepticism, are considered highly influential The Women's Institute is strongly associated with the concept of Middle England The primary meaning of the term is now a political or sociological one (as is also the case for the term "Middle America" or "Middle Australia"). It principally indicates the middle classes or lower-middle classes of non-urban Britain, but also carries connotations of "Deep England". John Major’s 1993 speech to the Conservative Group for Europe is often cited, evoking romantic imagery of rural cricket matches, warm beer, suburban gardens, and “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” (itself based on a quote from George Orwell). Although Middle England does not refer to a geographical region, it may be understood to refer to the inhabitants of suburbs in the South of England and the Midlands, typified by the small towns that make up "Metro-Land", the suburban areas north-west of London that are served by London Underground's Metropolitan line.

The phrase "Middle England" may be regarded by some as interchangeable with "Middle Britain", particularly with reference to political campaigns that seek to include middle-class voters in Scotland and Wales, but commentators such as Cannadine have assessed it as a designation specific to a segment of England, not Britain as a whole. John Major's 1993 speech has been noted for its culturally selective evocation of Britain, omitting inner cities, football, people who are unemployed, coal mines, Muslims, and the other Constituent Countries of the United Kingdom. People who belong to the Middle England grouping are typically said to be white, middle class or lower-middle class, heterosexual, with a strong work ethic and a highly developed sense of conscientiousness. They may typically read the Daily Mail, a popular British newspaper known for its conservative editorial bias, and are also sometimes referred to as the "silent majority" or "moral majority" in the British media.

Other demographic personas associated with Middle England include "Mondeo Man" (a term attributed to Tony Blair which describes a middle-class floating voter who owns a Ford Mondeo); "Worcester woman" (a provincial voter with little actual political awareness); "Essex Man" (an aspirational lower- middle-class voter from Essex); and "Pebbledash people" (a term coined by ICM Research to describe married white collar couples who live in semi-detached houses covered in pebbledash).

"Slough" is a ten-stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in his 1937 collection Continual Dew. The British town of Slough was used as a dump for war surplus materials in the interwar years,John Betjeman, John Piper Murray's Buckinghamshire architectural guide. p. 125 and then abruptly became the home of 850 new factories just before World War II.Robert M. Cooper. The Literary Guide and Companion to Middle England. p.

Woolworths head office on Marylebone Road, London The British branch of the F. W. Woolworth Company, which had been founded in Pennsylvania, F. W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd was founded by Frank Woolworth in Liverpool, England on 5 November 1909. Frank Woolworth had ancestry in Woolley, Cambridgeshire— Frank claimed he had traced his ancestry through the Founding Fathers of the district to a small "farm in middle England".Woolworths Group Plc., et al. (2006).

Jim and Pat, for Gerard Gilbert of i, are like "two suburban grotesques straight out of a Mike Leigh drama". Maggie is unaware of the chaos around her, instead distracted by the tablet—on which she plays a game somewhere between Clash of Clans and MinecraftPemberton and Shearsmith, episode commentary, 22:30.—or retelling the birthday card joke. As a "Middle England suburban" comedy, "Nana's Party" is "all about the depths and heartaches lurking beneath apparently happy families".

For example, Mr and Mrs Mole's divorce reflects rising divorce rates in the 1980s, and living together unmarried was becoming a norm. Adrian's mother becomes a staunch feminist and briefly joins the Greenham Common campaigners. Pandora, Adrian's love interest, and her parents are part of an intellectualised and left-wing middle class that attempted to embrace the working class. Humour arises from the outworking of larger social forces within a very ordinary household in a very ordinary part of Middle England.

The Kingdom of East Anglia during the early Anglo-Saxon period, showing the approximate coastline and The Fens at the time In Roman Britain, embankments were built around the Wash's margins to protect agricultural land from flooding. However, they fell into disrepair after the Roman withdrawal in AD 407. From 865 to sometime around 1066, the Wash was used by the Vikings as a major route to invade East Anglia and Middle England. Danes established themselves in Cambridge in 875.

Who this "heartland" is can vary between populists, even within the same country. For instance, in Britain, the centre-right Conservative Party conceived of "Middle England" as its heartland, while the far-right British National Party conceived of the "native British people" as its heartland. Mudde noted that for populists, "the people" "are neither real nor all-inclusive, but are in fact a mythical and constructed sub-set of the whole population". They are an imagined community, much like the imagined communities embraced and promoted by nationalists.

250px 250px The Bull Hotel is a 17th-century AA 4-star hotel in the Westgate neighbourhood of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, opposite the Queensgate shopping centre. The Bull Hotel, a Grade II listed building, is the premier hotel in Peterborough, and is the only AA recognised 4 star hotel in the city centre. It has served as a notable conference location for middle England, with a capacity of 250. The hotel has 118 rooms and is served by The Brasserie and the Pastroudis Bar and Cafe.

These poets turned to French models rather than either the New Country poets or English-language modernism, and their works were a proof of the importance of later English experimental poets as it broadened the scope of the English avant-garde tradition. John Betjeman and Stevie Smith, who were two other significant poets of this period, who stood outside all schools and groups. Betjeman was a quietly ironic poet of Middle England, with a command of a wide range of verse techniques. Smith was an entirely unclassifiable one-off voice.

Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure saw McGrath and McGuinness competing against both the public and themselves in unusual sports around Britain. For the first series, the contest was split into four parts: Middle England; Scotland and Northern England; Wales and the Shires; and Southern England. In each edition, McGrath and McGuinness go head-to-head at different sports, and also take part in a separate sport each. The results were recorded in their "Black book", with McGrath and McGuinness fighting each other to see who is best.

Series 1 was released in late 1997, while a second season followed in 2002, with Partridge now living in a static caravan after recovering from an off-screen mental breakdown. Iannucci said the writers used the sitcom as "a kind of social X-ray of male middle-aged Middle England." Supporting Coogan in the cast are Felicity Montagu as his faithful but timid personal assistant, Lynn Benfield; Simon Greenall as Geordie handyman Michael; and Phil Cornwell as Partridge's rival DJ Dave Clifton. Series 2 also featured Amelia Bullmore as Partridge's Ukrainian girlfriend Sonja.

BBC Art Critic, Will Gompertz referred to a defining characteristic of the "YBAs" being their ability to manipulate biddable media to get attention: :The formula is simple: When you have an exhibition to promote, say something mildly inflammatory to the press, and watch the column inches (particularly in August) and ticket sales soar. :Jake Chapman's comment about kids and paintings is a beautifully crafted example of the art. It has generated loads of attention, reinforced the brothers' bad-boy brand, and alerted an "outraged" middle England to the Chapmans' new show. Job done.

The other members of the troupe are comedian Jimmy Nunn; song-and- dance man Jerry Jerningham; singers Elsie Longstaff, Courtney (aka Joe) Brundit, and Joe's wife (referred to as "Mrs. Joe"); and singer-comedienne Susie Dean. The troupe have various adventures round the shires of middle England. After a sabotaged performance, the troupe disband: Jerry marries Lady Partlit, a fan; Susie and Inigo become successful and famous in London; Miss Trant marries a long lost sweetheart; Jess Oakroyd emigrates to Canada and the other performers carry on with their life on the road.

In 1997, Coogan starred in a sitcom, I'm Alan Partridge, written by Coogan, Iannucci and Peter Baynham. The series follows Partridge after he has been left by his wife and dropped from the BBC; he lives in a roadside hotel, presents a graveyard slot on local Norwich radio, and desperately pitches ideas for new television shows. Iannucci said the writers used the sitcom as "a kind of social X-ray of male middle-aged Middle England". It won the 1998 BAFTA awards for Comedy Performance and Comedy Programme or Series.

There are several mediaeval charters referring to the area around Badby, but some are suspect. The land around Badby and Newnham changed hands frequently as the swirling forces of Mercia and the invading Danes ebbed and flowed across middle England. Badby and Newnham manors were treated as one until the Knightleys sold Newnham manor to the Thorntons of Brockhall in 1634. The church benefice has always been Badby with Newnham (or Badby-cum-Newnham), Newnham being a chapel of the parent church at Badby in the initial times, but for a few years was recorded as the main church.

After the editor Charles Wilson learned of the matter, Johnson was dismissed. Johnson secured employment on the leader-writing desk of The Daily Telegraph, having met its editor, Max Hastings, during his Oxford University Union presidency. His articles appealed to the newspaper's conservative, middle-class, middle-aged "Middle England" readership, and were known for their distinctive literary style, replete with old-fashioned words and phrases and for regularly referring to the readership as "my friends". In early 1989, Johnson was appointed to the newspaper's Brussels bureau to report on the European Commission, remaining in the post until 1994.

The "modernisation" of Labour Party policy and the unpopularity of John Major's Conservative government, along with a well co-ordinated use of PR, greatly increased Labour's appeal to "middle England". The party was concerned not to put off potential voters who had previously supported the Conservatives, and pledged to keep to the spending plans of the previous government, and not to increase the basic rate of income tax. The party won the 1997 election with a landslide majority of 179. Following a second and third election victory in the 2001 election and the 2005 election, the name has diminished in significance.

Not cricket and rugby, but games at which we're the best in the world, such as toe wrestling, mountain bike bog snorkelling, egg throwing and, of course, worm charming." Noam Friedlander in Metro gave the programme four stars out of five, saying: "The pair packed a lot into the hour but a swifter romp through Middle England would have been more welcome. At least the eccentricities that make Britain 'great' got their minutes of fame. It makes a change to give these genuine characters airtime rather than the caterwauling wannabes we'll be seeing on this weekend's The X Factor auditions.

The name Thringstone is probably derived from an amalgamation of the Danish (Viking) personal name, Traengr (this area having come under the Danelaw during the 9th century) with the Anglo-Saxon suffix, tun, meaning 'farm' or 'village' - hence Traengr's tun. Another source suggests that 'Thring' may mean land that was difficult to work."Charnwood Forest in Old Photographs", by I. Keil et al., Alan Sutton Publishing, 1991. Thringstone is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086"The Domesday Geography of Middle England", Ed. H. C. Darby and I. B. Terrett, 2nd Ed. Camb Univ Press, p.

He chose as his title "Duke of Prunes", after a favourite piece of music by Frank Zappa. Coe read an excerpt of The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim to crowds at the Latitude Festival in July 2009. The central character was to be "a product of the social media boom", and "the sort of person with hundreds of Facebook friends but no one to talk to when his marriage breaks up."Katie Scott, "Jonathan Coe on how to build a better e-book" , Wired Blog, 28 July 2009 Coe's latest book Middle England, has been shortlisted for the Costa prize 2019 in the Novel category.

Maconie is also the author of Cider With Roadies, an autobiography of his experiences as a music journalist that references Cider with Rosie in the wordplay of the title. Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North, a book that discusses the modern reality of Northern England (as opposed to the popular myths), was published in February 2007, with an audio version following in March 2009. Maconie, portraying himself a 'professional northerner', uses his own childhood experiences alongside anecdotes from recent visits to illuminate the book. A third book, Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England was published in March 2009.

Life restoration of Eustreptospondylus facing Lexovisaurus in the Oxford Clay Formation environment Cetiosauriscus lived during the Callovian, an epoch in the Middle Jurassic, about 166 to 164 mya. The single specimen is known from the Lower Member of the Oxford Clay Formation, along with multiple other dinosaur genera and many other groups of animals, in the biozone of the index fossil Kosmoceras jason. The Oxford Clay Formation is a marine deposit of southern and middle England, known for the high-quality preservation of some fossils and the large diversity of taxa. Sediments are generally brownish-grey mudstone, organic-rich with plentiful crushed ammonites and bivalves, at most thick.

A Maidstone mum is a marketing term to describe dwellers in 'Middle England' who are deserting Tesco and Morrisons to shop at discount supermarkets Lidl and Aldi. A vox pop in Maidstone Kent, found a former president of Farleigh's Women's Institute (WI) who confirmed he was correct: > To start with I was a little uncomfortable – I always thought it was cheap > and cheerful, and up until then I had always shopped in Waitrose and > Sainsbury’s, but I found I would keep bumping into people I knew, I started > thinking… everyone I know shops here.. Maidstone mums joins the White Van Man, Pebbledash People, Worcester Woman and Mondeo man as one of the advertisers' target groups.

", "The Lodgers" and "Come to Milton Keynes" being deliberate attacks on 'middle England' and the Thatcherite policies of the UK government during the 1980s. In 1985, Weller was persuaded by Billy Bragg to let the Style Council play a leading role in Red Wedge, a youth- oriented political campaign associated with the British Labour Party. Although his views at the time have since been described as those of a "traditional British socialist", in 2014 Weller admitted the experience had left him feeling "exploited" by politicians, noting further that: "Before the Wedge, the Style Council had done a lot independently, raised a lot of money in benefits. But after the Wedge we were so disillusioned it all stopped.

Daoust, Phil, "Pick of the Day" The Guardian, 8 July 2003 In 2014, a documentary was made about the Hartlepool Monkey and its long-lasting significance to the city and its inhabitants called Heart of The Pools.Heart of The Pools A radio play by Ian Martin, The Hartlepool Spy, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Christmas Day 2018, with a cast including Michael Palin, Vic Reeves, Toby Jones, Gina McKee and Monica Dolan. The Hartlepool monkey is mentioned in Jonathan Coe's novel Middle England (published by Penguin Random House, 2018). The Northumbrian singer/songwriter Jez Lowe has a satirical song "The Simian Son" (originally known as "The Monkey's Revenge") that was performed first in 2012.

Kavanagh argues that by the 1980s, left-wing or socialist tendencies in the Labour Party divided the party and united its enemies: Blair moved the Labour Party in new directions, minimising the left-wing or socialist factions. He thereby broadened the appeal to professionals and middle-class voters in "Middle England", who had traditionally voted Conservative. Blair was also anxious to escape from the Labour Party's reputation for "tax-and-spend" domestic policies; he wanted instead to establish a reputation for fiscal prudence. He had undertaken in general terms to modernise the welfare state, but he had avoided undertaking to reduce poverty, achieve full employment, or reverse the increase in inequality that had occurred during the Thatcher years.

In the TV sketch comedy series Rutland Weekend Television, there is a musical sketch that tells the tale of three US Navy sailors who plan to spend an exciting—"More exciting than a book of Norman Mailer's"—and glamour-filled 24 hours in Royal Tunbridge Wells.It was actually three sailors played by Eric Idle, Neil Innes and Gillian Gregory and can be seen on YouTube. It was filmed somewhere on the South Downs as confirmed by Neil Innes to a local Tunbridge Wells Twitter group on 31 December 2010. In the UK, the town has a reputation for being a bastion of the middle class and a typical example of "Middle England".

He was voted back onto the Treasury Select Committee in November 2010, replacing David Rutley. On the select committee, Ruffley has opposed the Payments Council's plans to withdraw personal cheques by 2018, saying that it 'scared the pants off Middle England', accusing the Council of 'rank incompetence', and calling for the Council's chairman to resign. He has also criticised the withdrawal of cheque guarantee cards in July 2011, saying that the public were not given sufficient warning. In January 2011 Ruffley interrogated bankers appearing before the select committee, including Barclays' chief executive Bob Diamond, whom Ruffley asked whether he was "grateful to the British taxpayer" for the estimated £100bn of benefit of the 2008 United Kingdom bank rescue package to the wider banking system.

Tony Blair, Prime Minister (1997–2007) Tony Blair continued to move the party further to the centre, abandoning the largely symbolic Clause Four at the 1995 mini-conference in a strategy to increase the party's appeal to "middle England". More than a simple re-branding, however, the project would draw upon the Third Way strategy, informed by the thoughts of the British sociologist Anthony Giddens. New Labour was first termed as an alternative branding for the Labour Party, dating from a conference slogan first used by the Labour Party in 1994, which was later seen in a draft manifesto published by the party in 1996, called New Labour, New Life For Britain. It was a continuation of the trend that had begun under the leadership of Neil Kinnock.

Rebuilding Coventry is a 1988 novel written by Sue Townsend about a woman from Middle England who is accused of murdering her neighbour and goes on the run to London, and captures the zeitgeist of England in the 1980s. The protagonist is a self-described beautiful woman with the unlikely name of Coventry Dakin who is thoroughly fed up with her life, generally for reasons of ennui. Her neighbour has been spreading rumours of an illicit affair and whilst the neighbour is strangling his wife, she rushes over to his house, hits him over the head with her son's Action Man and he falls down dead. Coventry then escapes to London and lives as a down-and-out on the streets of the capital, encountering a bizarre series of characters from across the social spectrum.

Grinny deals with a normal family in middle England whose lives change when they are visited by aliens. The alien takes the form of an apparently benign elderly relative who can play mind tricks on the adults in the family but decides not to use this method on the children (although the sequel You Remember Me has the second alias used by these aliens, 'Lisa Treadgold' announcing that this decision was for the purposes of studying human children in what her race deemed to be a natural unaltered state. They do not bother with this process in their second attempt). This Granny-esque figure is eventually caught out by the children's ingenuity (they realise she is no normal human being when she expects what they describe to her as a "cast-iron conker" to be made of cast iron).

Frontispiece from the 1825 edition of The Experienced English Housekeeper For the first edition of The Experienced English Housekeeper, Raffald had tested all the recipes herself; for the second edition in 1771, she added 100 recipes, some of which she had bought and not tested, but, she informed her readers, she had "weighed them the best I could". Colquhoun considers that the recipes Raffald wrote were those that appealed to Middle England, including "shredded calves' feet, hot chicken pies and carrot puddings, poached eggs on toast, macaroni with parmesan, and lettuce stewed in mint and gravy".; recipes cited respectively. Raffald was, Colquhoun writes, typical of her time, as she did not want to use garlic, preferred to eat crisp vegetables, and used grated horseradish and cayenne pepper—the last of these Colquhoun describes as "the taste of Empire".

He returned to his mother and stepfather at Great Bardfield. Perry dressed as Claire, promoting a 2017 exhibition Perry frequently appears in public dressed as a woman, and he has described his female alter-ego, "Claire", variously as "a 19th century reforming matriarch, a middle-England protester for No More Art, an aero- model-maker, or an Eastern European Freedom Fighter",Grayson Perry: guerrilla tactics, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2002 and "a fortysomething woman living in a Barratt home, the kind of woman who eats ready meals and can just about sew on a button".Perry, pp. 8-9 [more detail needed] In his work Perry includes pictures of himself in women's clothes: for example Mother of All Battles (1996) is a photograph of Claire holding a gun and wearing a dress, in ethnic eastern European style, embroidered with images of war, exhibited at his 2002 Guerrilla Tactics show.

The historic origins of the village is associated with agriculture and has resulted in a legacy of good, stone built farmhouses, cottages and outbuildings. Although none of the surviving houses are believed to date from earlier than the 17th century, the style of many of the buildings and the dated examples indicate that Morcott shared in a period of transformation in the 17th and 18th centuries that reflected wider economic prosperity, based on growing demand and improvements in agriculture, notably in crop rotation and the wealth generated by sheep farming, that occurred in large parts of rural middle England at that time. The historic importance of a number of the buildings within the village is reflected in there being 30 entries on the National Heritage List for England. Outside of the village, but within the parish, the windmill on Barrowden Road is a prominent landmark in views from the conservation area and surrounding countryside.

"The Woolworths Virtual Museum - The European connection - Frank Woolworth's second home" -- "As he grew older it was fashionable for Americans to trace their ancestry - particularly if they could trace their roots back to the "old country" - England or Ireland. ... Frank's research [-es] indicated a strong link with Woolley, Cambridgeshire and he used to claim that he could trace his line back through the Pilgrim Fathers to a farm in middle England." When Frank eventually travelled to England in 1890, he docked in Liverpool and travelled by train to Stoke-on-Trent for the purchase of china and glassware for Woolworth's ranges, but also noted his love of England in his diary and his aspirations for bringing the Woolworth name to England: During the buying trip, Woolworth met a young clerk, William Lawrence Stephenson, who was recommended to him by John Wanamaker. Wanamaker had established a large chain of department stores across the United States and was one of Woolworth's heroes.