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Joel Budd

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I write about British society, and a few other things, at the Economist. Allegiances: Spurs, southern California, hard bop, cats.
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Underdogs by Joel Budd

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By Joel Budd , Robert Ford
| Pan Macmillan
Skip to main content Imprint: Picador ‘Essential reading’ – The Daily Telegraph ‘Not just well timed but admirably powerful’ – The Guardian ‘Packed with revealing content’ – Independent Underdogs is a surprising journey into the heart of the misunderstood white working class. And it might just change how you see Britain. Brexit helped to turn the white working class into a social and political force, but in its aftermath one-third of the population has been reduced to a caricature.
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Underdogs by Joel Budd

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By Joel Budd 
| Pan Macmillan
A Financial Times Summer Read 2025 A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' 'Essential reading' - Telegraph 'Not just well timed but admirably powerful' - The Guardian 'A calm, sensitive, soothingly sociological book' - The Sunday Times 'Will change how you see Britain' - Robert Ford, author of Brexitland ________ Underdogs is a surprising journey into the heart of the misunderstood white working class. And it might just change how you see Britain.
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Britain's petrolheads are back

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By Joel Budd 
| UnHerd
Broken Britaincar modificationCarsRural EnglandSocietyUKWorking class I often hear them before I see them: the squeal of tyres in a suburban street; the frantic revving in a motorway tunnel. Then the modified cars appear. Not uncommonly, they proceed to do something obnoxious. One strange-looking grey Audi overtakes me on the right, then quickly turns left, trailing a Victorian quantity of smoke.
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