We talk about the recession as if all of its victims were suffering equally, and all will be helped by some bland, class-and-category-neutral solution.
He zings Britain's rock music for going squishy, offering up bland, middle-class bands like Keane and Coldplay.
In an age of bland, middle-class politicians, his personal story would tell well on the campaign trail.
Characters at the colourful extremities of society are Dickensian grotesques, Phiz sketches, adrift in a country that is lurching rapidly towards bland middle-class normality.
In the national imagination, it's famous for being completely average, the kind of place politicians might shout out as a bastion of bland, working-class heroism.
The so-called "Organization Man" of the 1950s, the boring (white male) corporate type resigned to a life of bland middle-class prosperity and nothing that reeked of standing out from the pack, became something of an endangered species.
Michael Haneke's new movie is an Americanised replica-remake of his 1997 cult shocker Funny Games: just as before, it's an icy ordeal of sadism, a macabre vivisectional experiment in pure cruelty, practised upon a bland upper-middle-class family - two parents, tousle-haired kid, adorable dog - which thinks itself safe in its prosperous cocoon.
In an era when politics has become increasingly bland and middle-class, there is marked shortage of working-class heroes.
Modern art in Britain is muffled by a middle-class, bland consensus of approval.
To the extent that it penetrated the national consciousness at all, the area signified bland, tacky middle-class conformity: when people heard "Long Island," they thought "Levittown".
