Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Talking the country up, talking the country down 14
5. 2 Missing the crisis? The denial of structural poverty in the ‘cost of living’ debate 32
6. 3 Covid, Brexit and the emergence of national populism 53
7. 4 The UK’s chronic territorial condition 77
8. 5 The crisis in our NHS pre- and post-Covid 102
9. 6 Who cares about care? The carelessness of adult social care policy 122
10. 7 Social care or social harm? The chaotic organisation of support for Looked After Children in England 141
11. 8 Cracks in the food system 163
12. 9 What happened to all the anti-racists? 181
13. 10 Gender, austerity and crisis in an age of catastrophe 199
14. 11 The Conservatives and the climate crisis 222
15. 12 The politics of debt and perpetual crisis 247
16. 13 Brexit and the crisis of British democracy 266
17. 14 Fighting back? Britain’s shifting capitalism and its discontents 288
18. 15 Security in Britain today 310
19. 16 What went wrong with Britain and what did Britain have to do with it? 329
20. Contributors 342
21. List of acronyms 349
22. Index 351