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Its most fundamental attribute is a belief in decency; and it is decency which is forcing the Middle Class to allow itself to be traduced, deracinated and generally buggered about.Well, hell Decency is going to make a comeback Decency is going to be big. Nuts to the dreadful sub-proletariat, sunk in a Jurassic torpor so profound that all they can do is from time to time hit things and each other with hammers, in the hope that this will somehow cause the universal laws of entropy to swing into reverse and arrest their decline. Nuts, also, to the banking class, who, catching the scent of plague in their nostrils, have abandoned decency to stalk the country like pre-emptive grave-robbers. These people will be utterly destroyed when decency rises up and smites them righteously.Which is a bit of a worry, given that smiting, however righteously, is not really within the remit of decency. So we’ll just have to be a bit subtle, a bit oblique, win the hearts and minds and so forth. Hence the need for Pride.Agas and muesli and the bills paid on time are not enough For real Pride, we need Glamour. So let’s forget for a moment that the Middle Classes have fallen into a frightful state of desuetude, shame and timidity, and remind ourselves of our glories.The Middle Classes are civilised We don’t need to be violent because we are smart We don’t need to shout because we are articulate.

We opened up world trade, wrote music, created great art, designed and built astonishing cities: much of it at our patrons’ behest, but if it weren’t for Middle Class genius, our sodding patrons would still be living in daub huts and smashing each other on the head with clubs, as would the horrid proles.The Middle Classes are said to be repressed Repressed? Bollocks The Middle Classes have brought hedonism to its zenith. We live in warm, comfortable houses, sleep in soft, clean beds, groom ourselves carefully and have a lot of high-quality sex, unlike the patrons and proles, whose sex lives are brutal and perfunctory.The Middle Classes are, in short, the flower of civilisation We are right The others are wrong. We are better than they are, and as far as we are concerned, they can f*** off. We can walk tall! We are filled with Pride! And now we’ve got Pride, let’s get to work on Shouting, Rudeness and Violent Revolution.

First thing we should do is drop those damned asterisks; they’re only holding us back !. WHICH sauce would you think was the best, Superior Soy Sauce or Soy Superior Sauce? Difficult. But that’s the kind of decision you will have to make, without much guidance, if you shop at a Chinese store. Apart from the name of the importer or manufacturer, those will probably be the only words written in English on the bottle. The answer to the conundrum is that neither is really “superior”. Soy sauce is sold in two forms, light and dark – and Superior Soy is light, Soy Superior dark. That’s one of the nuggets of wisdom provided by the renowned chef Ken Hom, presenter of the new TV series Hot Wok and one of the judges in our tasting of soy sauces to mark the start of the Chinese New Year (the Year of the Rat, incidentally).
Another judge, the New Zealand chef Mark Gregory – author of Cooking Japanese Style – confirms that choosing a soy sauce is a complex matter.