It’s usually about a particular tranche of society, they’ll say, this week Tara such-and-such was wearing a hat, and someone else was wearing a hat, are we becoming a nation that really likes wearing hats? And it’s always an upper- middle-class thing, it’s never working-class. No one ever says, yesterday I saw a fat Bengali woman in a plaster cast, and then I saw another fat Bengali woman wearing a bandage. Have we become a nation of fat Bengali women with recent trips to A&E?

tranche (n) : a portion of something (especially money) – source: On Blueberry Hill