The book is about journeys, and people were making journeys out of harlow imea. One of the most affecting ories is of lihoi, who undertakes the most perilous journey from china to britain only to be met by disaster in morkam bay. We know that blair embraced open borders and globalization, but you are showing us it's very ugly under belly. Just tell us about li hoi and why you included that story here. This is, this is li who, who some of your listeners may recall, was one of the e cockle pickers who ended up on morkamBay sands. And there was a terrible disaster where they
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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