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The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain

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The problem was that the tenants regarded every single person knocking on their door as “the council”, and thus part of the nameless authority that they despised.

McGarvey proposes that if we stick with a system of power and privilege, whose cruelties are so extreme that we lurch from one social crisis to another. Across multiple regions of the UK, Darren illustrates the plight of those in poverty, planting himself on ground level and sharing many stories of hardship. The three recommendations at the end are also exactly where I would start if someone gave me a magic wand to start to put things right. The point is slightly undercut immediately afterwards in the acknowledgements when he thanks his nanny.A no holds barred social and political commentary that is bang up to date and spot on in its conclusions. And how come, if all the best people are in all the top jobs, Britain is such an unmitigated bin fire? I am not well educated on this topic and this book was definitely a massive eye-opener for many reasons, to my own privilege and biases. A cashless society is the vision of big finance and tech, and he warns that it will end up only benefitting the few, while infringing the privacy of the many.

There is a yawning gap between those in charge (however well meaning they may or may not be) and those at the bottom. The world is in turmoil and this is just a glimpse into the political and social landscape in the UK, that has led to us leaving the EU, and to so many becoming disillusioned with the politicians that have let us down time and again. The book covers topics such as unequal health outcomes, addiction, aspiration, class and much more, using this lens to show how inured many people's lives are from seeing the reality around them.But as ever, his mission was to get behind the facade and use his experiences of poverty and want to explore deep social problems and the huge imbalances of power that they point up. Join us for what promises to be a fascinating run-through of political history with a peculiarly Northern background. Now of course it's not any kind of conservatism that a conservative would recognise, but that's a feature of how far we've come over the last few decades.

It subsidised the private schools (known as Public Schools) so that they could take bright members of the lower middle class at greatly-reduced fees. From people having to choose between having a home or drug treatment, to the cruelty of Jeremy Kyle to the detached politics of the hard left this book packs it in.Maybe he is holding a mirror up to middle-class prejudices, and we just don’t like our own reflection. I thought I wasn't judgemental but it has even changed the way I think about certain things in life and making me more understanding of issues people experience.

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