In the united kingdom, a hundred and 60 public libraries were closed down in two thousand and 19 alone. In the united federal funding for public libraries fell by the third over just a few years. People need physical places to be together, to do things together. Government has a role to play in helping to fund this at local and national levels. There's also an element of near liberalism. Am, of the kind of capitalism that we've adopted in recent years. It has presided over a period of growing inequality. Now, i don't have an objection to inequality per se, but i do have a problem when significance swathesThe population feel that they are being ignored.