Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Mind the Gap
Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in Britain | Ferdinand Mount
1 post | 1 read
Through acute observation and vivid illustration - drawing on every aspect of life from soap operas, speech patterns and gardening to education and the distribution of wealth - he demolishes the illusion that we live in a classless society and shows how the worst-off in Britain today are more culturally deprived than their parents or grandparents. The author's solutions, like his explanations of what has gone wrong, are original, surprising and unsparing to intellectuals and politicians of all parties.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
morag-at-large
Pickpick

I found this book very insightful regarding class divisions in the UK today and the continuing reasons for these divisions. Read not long before the tragedy at Grenfell Tower, it puts the antipathy felt towards the working class in sharp focus. As I have only lived in the UK for a few years, social class and issues of social mobility are quite foreign to me, so this was a good read, albeit somewhat disheartening in its conclusions.