Owen Jones's Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class reviewed by Dwight Garner

Here’s how Mr. Jones sets the scene. "Sitting around the table were people from more than one ethnic group. The gender split was 50-50, and not everyone was straight. All would have placed themselves somewhere left of center politically." Each guest "would have bristled at being labeled a snob." Disaster arrived, as it always seems to, with the black currant cheesecake. That’s when the talk turned to the economic crisis. One of the party’s hosts joked: "It’s sad that Woolworth’s is closing. Where will all the chavs buy their Christmas presents?" The other guests tittered. Mr. Jones stewed.

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The word chav, if your subscriptions to British periodicals have lapsed, is a noun that essentially means "ugly prole": loutish, tacky, probably drunken and possibly violent. The stereotypical chav is a hormonal 20-something lad in an Adidas tracksuit, sideways Burberry baseball cap and bling, but women can be chavs, too. Think of Snooki with a cockney accent.

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Mr. Jones is very young (he’s 26) and hideously talented. Reading "Chavs," I often cursed aloud as if I’d banged my thumb with a mallet, which is how I express keen literary pleasure until I can arrive at something more coherent to say.

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The author notes how demonizing the lower classes makes it easier to make policy against them. "To admit that some people are poorer than others because of the social injustice inherent in our society would require government action," he writes. "Claiming that people are largely responsible for their circumstances facilitates the opposite conclusion."

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The front half of "Chavs" is vastly superior to its back half...

This book could have been a rippling, rock-hard classic at 150 pages -- the book you’d see peeking out of every college student’s back pocket and rucksack during the summer of 2011. At nearly twice that length, it is still something to behold, a work of passion, sympathy and moral grace.

Recently, I've also came across the new verb (to me) "glassed" a couple times. "Game of Throne" actors Sean Bean (Ned Stark) and Jason Momoa (Drago) were both cut with broken bottles at bars, Bean recently in London and Momoa a while back in Hawaii.