Review of Grace Blakely's Corona Crash
Overall, a superb little book. So short at least 3 or 4 big toilet sessions would be enough to read it whole. The best chapter by far is the first, which, specifically in the context of the UK, shows, in clear terms, how fucked we are. A decade of ruinous and crippling austerity, which saw productivity completely plateaued (always 10% less than countries like France), growth go to near nothing levels (in Matthew Lawrence's IPPR report a couple of years back it was noted to be practically minus 1) and abysmally levels of wage stagnation (real wages in the UK collapsed over the past 10 years, only Greece had a worse result. Yes, you read that right Greece ). Coupled with that internal wealth inequality has increased, regional inequality has exploded (Northern Ireland remains the poorest community in Britain), health standards have fallen (life expectancy has actually gone down, certain malnutrition diseases have cropped back up again in kids) the health service is in a state of semi...