Novara FM: Britain is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It? w/ Dom Davies
Asked in a recent poll to summarise Britain in a word, 'broken' was the people's top choice. This brokenness is concrete stuff: crumbling bridges, sewage-filled rivers, failing computer systems, abandoned rail projects. But it's also bundled with the collective stories we tell about what it means to be a nation, and who belongs in it. To find out why nothing works in Britain anymore, Moya Lothian-McLean talks to Dom Davies, author of The Broken Promise of Infrastructure. He explains how democratic 'public works' were replaced by neoliberal 'infrastructure', why colonial railways linger in our…
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