/511/ Britain’s Tinderbox ft. Lisa McKenzie

On the UK's working-class unrest.

Sociologist Lisa McKenzie talks to Alex and contributing editor Lee Jones about why the country feels like a powder-keg.

• What's behind protests like Unite the Kingdom? How responsible are far-right agitators?

• Why are threats posed to women and children such an explosive issue?

• What is the type of nationalism that is behind the proliferation of English and British flags?

• What are Farage's Reform promising and will they deliver? What of the immigration question?

• How is Corbyn's "Your Party" going, and why can't the Left seem to speak for or to the working class?

Links:

• Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain, Lisa McKenzie, Bristol UP
• Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class, Lisa McKenzie
• James Treadwell thread on raising of flags, X