They brought a dash of riotous assembly to a ceremony whose other big winners were those epitomes of middle-class good taste, James Blunt and Coldplay.
The white, middle-class good burghers of Edinburgh can look after themselves, but when offence is taken by the underdog those feelings are valued more highly.
Yet the film has chosen to set up a scenario in which a middle-class, "good" French person is assaulted, and let down by the police, who in so doing let the racaille get away with it.
If the majority of decision makers – gatekeepers – come from such a narrow social and cultural set (white, middle-class, good contacts, right accent and cultural references), then the question of who gets published and which stories get told is unlikely to change.
On weekends, Gorbushka, the largest pirated CD and DVD market in Europe, is packed with hundreds of Russian families cruising for a middle-class good time: the latest software (Microsoft Excel: $3), music (Norah Jones's latest album: $2.50) and computer games (The Sims Livin' Large: $4).
Some core middle-class goods are now priced as luxuries explaining why many Americans feel so squeezed.
Most households have seen their incomes stagnate while certain essential middle-class goods (such as college education and health care) have soared in price.
Travel, in a sense, is now part of the basket of middle-class goods that the government tries to make available to people as a way of maintaining satisfaction and stability.
Over the next decade wages in China will rise, and the emerging middle class will spend more on middle-class goods and services.
Q: (HALF SAMPLE) What kind of job do you think Trump has done so far on helping the middle class - excellent, good, not so good or poor?
