The state of us : the good news and the bad news about our society / Jon Snow.
By: Snow, Jon.
Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2024Description: 272 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781529176063 (pbk.) :; 1529176069 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Society | Society | Autobiography: arts & entertainment | Media studies | Social mobility | Social services & welfare, criminology | Politics & government | Great Britain -- Social conditions | Great Britain -- Moral conditions | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-DDC classification: 361.10941 Summary: We are living through a time of tremendous upheaval. Society is growing ever more unequal, and elites increasingly detached, with the Honourable Members ensconced in their Upper and Lower Houses. Jon Snow's own wake up call was the Grenfell Tower fire when, gazing up at the smoke still pouring from the building in the early hours, he felt the weight of the obligation as a journalist to understand what had happened. Tracing key moments in his incredible career, from getting thrown out of university for protesting apartheid to his reporting on major global developments everywhere from America to Iran, Snow argues that the greatest problems at home and abroad so often come down to inequality and an unwillingness to confront it.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Eccleston Library Adult Non-Fiction | 361.109 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38055400026862 |
Originally published: London: Bantam, 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
We are living through a time of tremendous upheaval. Society is growing ever more unequal, and elites increasingly detached, with the Honourable Members ensconced in their Upper and Lower Houses. Jon Snow's own wake up call was the Grenfell Tower fire when, gazing up at the smoke still pouring from the building in the early hours, he felt the weight of the obligation as a journalist to understand what had happened. Tracing key moments in his incredible career, from getting thrown out of university for protesting apartheid to his reporting on major global developments everywhere from America to Iran, Snow argues that the greatest problems at home and abroad so often come down to inequality and an unwillingness to confront it.