From LRB, who will stop them? Owen Hatherley reviews The Establishment and How They Get Away with It by Owen Jones. John Kampfner reviews Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else by James Meek. No wonder landowners are scared — we are starting to learn who owns Britain. Why has social mobility in Britain gone into decline? For historian David Kynaston the answer begins with our elitist and divisive system of education. Andrew Millie (Edge Hill): The Aesthetics of Anti-social Behaviour. Tom Slater (Edinburgh): The Myth of “Broken Britain”: Welfare Reform and the Production of Ignorance. Robert Ford (Manchester) Matthew Goodwin (Nottingham): Understanding Ukip: Identity, Social Change and the Left Behind. Amanda Taub on the terrifying rise of the far right in the UK, explained in one chart. Lewis Young (Teesside): Still “Smashing the Fascists”? Understanding the Meaning of “Fascism” in Anti-fascist Rhetoric. An interview with Mark Hayes, author of The Ideology of Fascism and the Far Right in Britain. England, a nation apart? With constitutional change looming and Ukip on the rise, England’s identity and future has become a crucial, even disturbing political issue. William Cash on why we need English votes for English laws. David A. Gantz (Arizona): The Scottish Referendum: Another Major Step Toward Independence? Jonathan Freedland on what Scotland won. From New Left Review, Neil Davidson on a Scottish watershed. What's remarkable is how nearly perfectly the Smith/Jones divide lines up with the political boundary between England and Wales. The British diaspora: Some 5m Britons live abroad — the country could do far more to exploit its high-flying expats. Why does a Caliphate resonate with some British Muslims? When the violent jihadist group Isis declared a Caliphate taking in parts of Syria and Iraq, they reignited a debate over the role of an Islamic state.
