Crumbling Britain: one town’s revolt against a bankrupt council to save its local library
From a child at the High Court to pensioners planning a sit-in, Desborough residents are challenging Northamptonshire’s closure of 21 libraries.
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Crumbling Britain: the welfare state has created its own hostile environment
The ever-tightening squeeze on social care is just one way in which austerity is affecting my patients.
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Crumbling Britain: how austerity is hollowing out the heart of Tory Somerset
With two-thirds of children’s centres closing, West Somerset has the worst social mobility in the country – and families are…
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Crumbling Britain: thousands like my elderly aunt suffer as the public realm decays
The first in a New Statesman series examining the reality of the age of austerity – and how it is affecting people’s lives.
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