A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce review – are we raising a bookless generation?
A British Childhood get its first review in today's Guardian. It says it's trenchant and full of heart.
It also says chatty and unguarded, which makes me sound like a really angry Alan Carr.
I like that.
Whenever I hear Rory Sutherland speak nowadays it sounds like he's describing our economics more broadly.
There's a lot of talk about British-ness at the moment. You might want to start by thinking about what a British Childhood looks like. I'll be on about it in Bath tomorrow evening
www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/...
Michael Morpurgo himself said 'No home, no school, and especially no library should be without this story and this book (A British Childhood). But what will that @nadiashireen.bsky.social say when we meet on the South Bank on Thursday?
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/fra...
every time I say this, someone didn't know:
you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Since 1980, under the Thatcherite policies, 2.8m social homes sold, 1.9m in England for £51bn.
In 2024, England homes were worth £430bn.
Councils didn't receive full sales proceeds, couldn't replenish housing stock. Vital depts closed.
Social homes down from 6.8m to 5.4m.
Huge housing crisis.
