This final chapter uses the Adrian Mole books to chart a route from the 1970s to the present in terms of class and taste. The fictional character of Adrian Mole believes in the taste of ‘controlled casualness’ and all that goes with it. He also never quite attains it for all sorts of reasons. The promise of classlessness, even as a feeling, is as much a problem as a solution. The chapter goes on to explore claims made about the duvet being a cause of national decline and the claims about the end of class society made by John Prescott and John Major. It ends with the question of how climate change and increased social divisions will affect the relationships of class and taste.