A hundred years ago, the 'middlebrow' question was inextricably mixed up with class: Virginia Woolf came from the lower-upper class (or the upper-upper-middle) and grew up just before the great cataclysms that destroyed the rentier class. Her visceral hatred for the ‘betwixt and between’ petit bourgeois ‘middlebrow’ made sense. If you think it no longer exists, it is there as plain as day, slightly altered, in the ‘Things Bogans Like’ phenomenon – stepped down a stratum or two, to demonise working-class people who have acquired wealth and yet have the temerity not to try and emulate the urban bourgeoisie.