what would help see off “decline p*rn“ is for activists to fight that decline - fight for every universal service, every swimming pool, hospital, library, youth club - if seen as unsexy activism compared to performative “solidarity” (& social entrepreneurial niches), we cede the terrain to the fash
CarolineJMolloy
Decline porn will be familiar to many—relentless negativity about British cities + connection drawn between immigration and urban decline.
But much of it is exaggerated, and it has allowed the right to avoid confronting their own contributions to national ‘decline’ ie austerity and Brexit