A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning
injustices shaping British society today. ‘Intelligently written
and powerfully argued.’ Paul Mason ‘Witty, scathing, and
entertaining.’ Danny Dorling Journalist Sam Bright is a
Northerner living in London. He is just one of the millions of
people clinging on to the coattails of the capital, sucked in by
the prospect of opportunities that the rest of the United Kingdom
does not enjoy. Our capital is a vast melting pot of languages,
cultures, and ideas, and rightly celebrated for it. For many,
though, there is no other option. The only place to access the
opportunities this country offers is London. Banking, law,
politics, advertising, architecture, the arts and the media are all
concentrated here. It is almost impossible to reach the heights of
any profession without joining the grey hoards queuing for the next
tube. As the economic, political, and cultural epicentre of the
country, Fortress London acts more like a renaissance city-state
like Florence or Venice than the capital of a modern nation-state.
And the gluttony of London, compared to the malnourishment of our
regions, dramatically affects life chances in Britain. Fortress
London argues that to address Britain’s manifold problems, we
need first to end the hegemony of its capital. Enriched by a vast
array of interviews and statistics, it will examine how our
individual destinies, from childhood to death, are determined by
the disproportionate power of London. It will explain why regional
inequality has fallen off the Left’s radar, even as the Right
pays lip service to it, and it will draw on international
comparisons to show where we have gone wrong and, crucially, how we
can fix it. Sam Bright’s clear-eyed intervention will convince
you that regional inequality is the problem — and that now is the
time for change. Featuring exclusive interviews with: Andy Burnham,
Lisa Nandy, Steve Rotheram, Aditya Chakrabortty, David Blunkett,
Jess Phillips, Andrew Adonis and more…
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