What Happens if You Don't Keep Up?

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i spent a lot of time writing the book, reading letters and diaries. The industrial revolution feels reallyunnervingly familiar in some ways. Social problems emerging that governments just had no idea how to deal with. And also this mounting sense of popularism,. You even had the populist party that emerge, which has some uncanny kind of an similarities to trumpism.

James Plunkett's new book, End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken, draws on his years working in both public policy and at the top tiers of government. A former advisor to UK prime minister Gordon Brown, his book looks at how to reboot some key ideas ranging from commerce to healthcare for a nation such as the UK in order to provide better quality of life for larger sections of society. James joins urbanist, transport and tech specialist Kat Hanna to talk about the book.

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