The poor and aspiring middle-classes have the most to gain, and least to lose.
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"It's easy to assume that the middle-classes are buying an unfair advantage over poorer but more able students, " he says.
Labour is actually doing quite a lot for the poor, even if the party's rhetoric remains tailored for the middle-classes.
It was so loved by the mid-18th century middle-classes that it went through five print runs within a year of publication.
Back in the early 1990s, when the Conservative Party was Britain's favourite pedlar of political fare, Labour was stuck with a downmarket brand that scared off the middle-classes.
Robert Irwin, from the School of Oriental and African Studies, says the stories were written to entertain in normal, conversational Arabic of the late Middle Ages - and were aimed at the tradesmen and the lower-middle classes.
Roland Priebe encouraged his son Luke to graduate early because regular middle- and high-school classes were a bad fit for his academically gifted son.
Taxing issues would be harsh enough in the middle- and lower-income classes without the threat of real migration by those who seek to keep their tax burdens low.
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While most discussions of slang focus on the lower and lower-middle classes, the gentry, too, have their argot.
Of the area's 25m households, he is chasing just 9m, mainly the lower-middle classes, who tend to watch more television and care more about its cost.
Universal coverage is never as universal as its proponents want it to be, and it usually results in a double- or triple-tier system as the upper-middle classes flee.
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It benefits the upper and upper-middle classes, the argument goes, by the strict standards it imposes to protect the land: growth control, open space, maintained eco-systems and the preservation of town or village character.
"There are local factors in Syria that are going to make it much more difficult to have an effect -- the middle classes in Syria have yet to really throw their lot in with the opposition, " he said.
He can communicate with the religious middle classes and small-town traders who see him as being as politically solid as he is physically stout.
Georgia's stunning GDP growth (perhaps over 10% by the end of the year, despite Russian trade sanctions) is great news for the well-educated urban middle classes.
Not by the question per se, which is a fairly standard enquiry (dogs sniff bottoms, the middle classes compare education - the purpose is the same: to gauge status).
The newly-emerged Asian middle classes have now seen much of their wealth buried under mountains of bad debt or else destroyed as stockmarkets have crashed, currencies have lost value and property bubbles have burst.
The rise of the British middle classes, with their middle-sized houses and middle-sized gardens, led to a new emphasis on floral display rather than landscape in late-Victorian England.
The social services organisation Klimaka runs a food kitchen that feeds 3, 000 people a day - many are now from the middle classes.
Are the privileged Mandelas - however much one respects the name and the legacy, and sympathises with the burden such a surname must sometimes be - best placed to champion the middle classes?
America has a progressive tax system - the rich pay more than the middle classes, who pay more than the poor.
This is somewhat true, particularly for parts of London and New York, which can survive high ratios because their markets are less national and middle-income and more tied to the global upper classes.
Safety concerns have driven the middle classes into gated compounds and tourists into all-inclusive resorts.
It contained plenty to make the middle classes happy, including cuts in the overly-high levels of duty levied on imported liquor and cars, as well as, more usefully, on information-technology products.
China has done what no other country has been able to do in the last decade, and that is bring millions of people out of dollar-a-day poverty and into the working and middle classes.
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But his plain-talking style, his popularity among the middle classes who feel their pockets squeezed and his frequent spats with President Jacques Chirac have all let him project an image that sets him apart from the elite.
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At its simplest, parenthood exposes even the affluent middle classes to public services, from hospitals to day-care centres or libraries.
And a government keener on redistributive clobbering of the middle classes, without breaking its pledge not to raise income-tax rates?
The left's candidate, ex-mayor of a town once known as Italy's Stalingrad, could scarcely be more typical of the ex-communisti Mr Berlusconi uses as bogeymen to scare the middle classes.
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