This essay, on the relationship between class, race and geography in Britain, was my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on antibiotics, global poverty and the broken market.) It was published on 26 January 2020, under the headline ‘No history, no languages… the end of humanities only deepens divides’. Sunderland University wants to become more ‘career-focused’. So it is to shut down all its language, politics and history courses and promote instead degrees that ‘align with […]

Categories: Britain, Class, Philosophy & Ethics • Tags: centre for towns, cities, elite, humanities, labour party, poverty, privilege, social mobility, sunderland university, towns, universities, white privilege, white working class, working class