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The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain - Softcover

Toynbee, Polly; Walker, David

 
9781783351718: The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1783351713 ISBN 13: 9781783351718
Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

The ten years from 2010 have been devastating. A decade of austerity and paralysis nurtured contempt for leaders, institutions and fellow citizens and fertilised the ground for a rebellious Brexit. It has been a decade characterised by national tragedies from Grenfell to Windrush, and food banks to the property crisis.

But, as Adam Smith said, ‘there’s a great deal of ruin in a nation’. No truthful portrait of an era can be monochrome. Bright spots included the rise of renewable energy, lower crime rates, legalisation of same-sex marriage and the creative industries continuing to punch well above their weight in spite of cuts.

In The Lost Decade, Polly Toynbee and David Walker offer the definitive survey of this most tumultuous of periods in British history and look to what lies ahead for us. This is the anatomy of a dark decade, bringing hope for better to come.

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About the Author

Polly Toynbee and David Walker have co-authored Dogma and Disarray: Cameron at Half-Time, Unjust Rewards: Exposing Greed and Inequality in Britain Today, The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain? and Better or Worse: Did Labour Deliver? Polly Toynbee is a columnist for the Guardian. David Walker is a contributing editor to the Guardian Public and former director of public reporting at the Audit Commission.

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Publisher
Guardian Faber Publishing
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1783351713
ISBN 13 
9781783351718
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
368