But the films never rang entirely true because their directors (such as Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson) were regarded as slumming privately educated, middle-class intellectuals, playing at being workers.

ECONOMIST: Yet another British film renaissance

He wrote satirical left-wing ballads for the Establishment Club, mixed with Ken Tynan and Lindsay Anderson on the edge of London's shocking 1960s theatre scene, set his poems to jazz, uncovered pseuds and bizarre news stories for Private Eye.

ECONOMIST: Christopher Logue, poet, died on December 2nd, aged 85