After the war, there was a great need for housingd to resettle people. A series of new towns were created around london - one of them was harlowe. My aunt is now 90 and she received a letter e saying that the doctor's surgery would close. She started a little campaign to try and stop it. And what we discovered was that actually the ultimate old owners of the prentice place, n h s doctor's surgery, was an american conglomerate. They had taken the decision to close it because it was so called, n not cost effective. So i begin by telling that story,. It is a very poignant story, and it really profoundly leads to this
Jason Cowley is Editor of British political weekly, The New Statesman. He’s also an author and his latest book, Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England, is a timely reflection on the identity of his home nation. The book follows both individual stories of everyday life and the broad arc of national politics over the past 25 years spanning the ascent of the Tony Blair government to Tory austerity, Brexit and the pandemic. Hosting the discussion is Kavita Puri, journalist, broadcaster and author of the book and radio programme, Partition Voices, which explores issues of identity within the British Asian community.
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