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Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf’s skyscrapers, Gary wanted something better. Something a whole lot bigger. Then he won a competition run by a bank: ‘The Trading Game’. The prize: a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader in the whole city. A place where you could make more money than you’d ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional maths geniuses, overfed public schoolboys and borderline psychopaths, yet they start to feel like family. Where soon you’re the bank’s most profitable trader, dealing in nearly a trillion dollars. A day. Where you dream of numbers in your sleep – and then stop sleeping at all. But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? The story of the dark heart of an intoxicating world – from someone who survived the game and then blew it all wide open.
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We’re all getting poorer. What does that look like for British children, and their life chances?
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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.
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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.
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Politicians claim social mobility is real – a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise. From servants’ children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made redundant by the 2008 financial crash, travelling up or down the social ladder has been a fact of British life for more than a century. Drawing on hundreds of personal stories, ‘Snakes and Ladders’ tells the hidden history of how people have really experienced that social mobility – both upwards and down.
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Stories of economic shame in Britain and a hopeful way forward for capitalismÂ
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From Donald Trump’s 2024 Vice-Presidential Candidate
‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times
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We talk a lot about the role class plays in British society, but how exactly do we move from one ‘class’ to another – and, if we can do so, what effect does it have on us? In this book, part memoir, part social analysis, Lynsey Hanley explains that to be ‘respectable’ is to be neither rough nor posh, neither rich nor especially poor. Drawing on her own experience growing up in Birmingham – living through the Thatcher years, listening to the Pet Shop Boys and Erasure, reading her parents’ ‘Daily Mirror’ and her grandparents’ ‘Sun’ – Hanley shows how social mobility can be double-edged unless we recognise the psychological impact of class and its creation of self-limiting obstacles.
