Mind the Gap
Published on 15. February 2012
320 pages
978-1-78072-122-4 (ISBN)
Description
'A rollicking account of the class divide in 21st-century Britain.' - Simon Jenkins, The Sunday Times
In this provocative and ruthlessly frank book, Ferdinand Mount argues that there is a new class divide in Britain which is just as vicious and hard to get rid of as the old one.
Through acute observation and vivid illustration - drawing on every aspect of life from soap operas, speech patterns and gardening to education and the distribution of wealth - he demolishes the illusion that we live in a classless society and shows how the worst-off in Britain today are more culturally deprived than their parents or grandparents.
The author's solutions, like his explanations of what has gone wrong, are original, surprising and unsparing to intellectuals and politicians of all parties.
In this provocative and ruthlessly frank book, Ferdinand Mount argues that there is a new class divide in Britain which is just as vicious and hard to get rid of as the old one.
Through acute observation and vivid illustration - drawing on every aspect of life from soap operas, speech patterns and gardening to education and the distribution of wealth - he demolishes the illusion that we live in a classless society and shows how the worst-off in Britain today are more culturally deprived than their parents or grandparents.
The author's solutions, like his explanations of what has gone wrong, are original, surprising and unsparing to intellectuals and politicians of all parties.
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A book which offers the first real breath of fresh air in Conservative thinking since the Thatcher revolutionaries imposed their own intellectual orthodoxyMore details
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,37 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78072-122-4 (9781780721224)
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Ferdinand Mount was editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1991 to 2002. He has published nine novels, among which Of Love and Asthma won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He is also a former head of the Number Ten Policy Unit and director of the Centre for Policy Studies. He is married with three grown-up children and lives in Islington.
