HERE’S TO SOCIAL SPACES
by Kenan Malik
. This essay, on the importance of social spaces, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 11 April 2021, under the headline “Full pubs are a sign of communities that work. Let’s toast their return”. There were thousands this week, shivering in some icy pub garden, raising their glass to the next step on the government’s roadmap out of lockdown, as outdoor drinking resumed. At the start of the pandemic, they could have done so in thousands more venues […]
Categories: Britain, Politics • Tags: austerity, clubs, covid 19, libraries, lockdown, music venues, pandemic, poverty, pubs, social spaces, youth clubs
Pandaemonium 