Shattered Nation by Danny Dorling Summary
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"Shattered Nation" exposes how Britain's inequality crisis has created a country where food banks outnumber McDonald's. Oxford professor Danny Dorling's data-driven analysis, praised by Jeremy Corbyn, reveals the shocking return of Victorian-era diseases in one of the world's wealthiest economies.
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Britain's Fractured Society: The Fall from Equality
Britain has undergone a startling transformation over the past five decades. Once celebrated for its social cohesion and robust welfare state, the UK has morphed into Western Europe's most unequal society-rivaling countries like Bulgaria in its social divisions. This didn't happen by accident. While most developed nations have maintained or improved equality, life expectancy, and education access, Britain deliberately chose a different path. The results are visible everywhere: neighborhoods that once mingled children from various backgrounds now strictly determine life chances; former community hubs stand empty or gentrified; and a society that once prided itself on fairness now accepts shocking levels of inequality as inevitable. What makes this story particularly compelling is that it wasn't inevitable-it represents specific policy choices that other European nations consciously rejected. The contrast between Britain's social fragmentation and the cohesion of countries like Finland reveals that these problems stem not from abstract economic forces but from deliberate decisions that prioritized financial interests over collective wellbeing. How did a nation once admired worldwide become a cautionary tale of societal breakdown?
The Geography of Inequality: Postcodes as Destiny
The Great Decline: When Britain Lost Its Way
The Return of Victorian Hunger in Modern Britain
Housing Crisis: The New Form of Social Control
The Elite Few: How Extreme Wealth Fractures Society
Rebuilding a Shattered Nation: The Path Forward
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