Shattered Nation: Danny Dorling on how we ended up here

– Why is Britain shattered? How did it become so divided – and how can we fix it? Danny Dorling talks about his new book, Shattered Nation: Inequality & the Geography of a Failing State, as he walks through the streets of the city where he grew up, and where he returned to become Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford in 2013.

From child poverty to the selloff of the NHS, from shrinking life expectancy to the cost of living crisis, how did the UK end up in the state it is today, having travelled from the second most equal country in Europe in the 1970s to being the most unequal today? Danny looks at effective ways to address inequality that are everyday practice across the continent – and even some that are already being done in Scotland.

Praise for Shattered Nation:
“The self-deception that we are a nation of fairness and justice is systematically exploded by a calm and persistent use of factual observations of the lives of people, spread between the super-rich and the increasingly poor and socially left behind, in all parts of the country. . . To read this could be depressing and disempowering, but that is not the intention. It is up to us, all of us, to be prepared to argue for a society that really does care for all.” – Jeremy Corbyn MP

"Sobering, shocking and brilliantly incisive. A snapshot of a divided nation and a powerful antidote to nostalgic fantasies." – David Olusoga, historian

“Dorling chooses facts over fiction, data over spin, reality over nostalgia in this sweeping overview of a badly fractured and weakened Britain. Above all, he draws attention to the economic, political and social fissures enfeebling a nation that only forty years ago was well regulated, fairer and vibrant.”
– Ann Pettifor, economist

Read more about Shattered Nation, published in 2023 by Verso Books.
https://www.dannydorling.org/books/sh...

This film was made by Voices Media https://www.voicesmedia.co.uk