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OPINION - That London theatre job advert had a point — every office should have some convicted criminals knocking about

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Camden People’s Theatre has come under fire for a job advert for a new artistic director and joint CEO, in which it says it is encouraging applications from a long tick box of under-represented groups, along with people who identify as “working-class, benefit class, criminal class and/or underclass”.

Hmm. Who exactly would identify as being “benefit class”? It smacks of middle-class people putting their foot in it at pick-up time when talking to the unpopular parents from

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