The Social Distance Between Us / Hostile Environments by Darren McGarvey

This book seems to have two different titles: 'Hostile Environments' and 'The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain' 

This is a MUST read!! A real eye opener and a perfect book to base important discussions on. Yes, the book contains views belonging to certain political camps, but the painstakingly detailed research that has gone into creating this book including a huge number of real life examples make Darren McGarvey and his book forces to be reckoned with. Politicians, policy makers and those who want to, or more importantly can, influence decision making in Britain, should make it a priority to read this book. 

The book extensively discusses how proximity is one of the biggest reasons for failure in most of the political system used in Britain today. The lack of actual lived experience of policy makers in Whitehall and the devolved nations, make policies fail miserably; in many cases not by ill-intent, but because the policy makers just cannot fathom what the actual problem is and how it can be addressed. 

Possibly an uncomfortable read for the mandarins in British politics, but that's exactly the reason this book should be taken seriously.

The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain by Darren McGarvey is available now.

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