Michael K

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‘Britain’s capitalist class has effectively given up on the future. It’s against this economic backdrop that the nostalgia fest of the Tory leadership election is taking place.’

William Davies on the seductions of declinism, published online early:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n15/william-davies/the-seductions-of-declinism

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William Davies · The Seductions of Declinism: Stagnation Nation · LRB 4 August 2022

Where there are signs of chaos to rival the ‘winter of discontent’ – the twenty-­mile queues of trucks waiting to...

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The 27th marks 10 years since the opening of the 2012 London Olympics. Despite watching it from afar, it remains one of the most inspiring, uniting and flat out joyous events I've ever seen.

Compare and contrast with the current grim state of Britain. Essential read.