Book description
Britain in 2011 is in the grip of debt hysteria. If the current
coalition government is going to be remembered for one thing it is the
cuts: the most severe that this country has seen for decades. Cuts to
university funding, libraries and public sector workplaces have seen
the most high profile resistance, with the type of protest on the
streets not seen since the Poll Tax riots and the Thatcher years.
In this ebook, Mehdi Hasan exposes ten myths about the debt,
deficits and spending cuts, and asks if this programme of austerity is
really necessary or whether it is actually an economic strategy with
its roots in an ideology that extends much further back in time than
the global economic collapse of 2008.
BRAIN SHOTS is the pre-eminent source for high quality, short-form
digital non-fiction. The Summer of Unrest series brings
together stellar writers to explore the issues surrounding the
austerity measures in the UK, uprisings in the Middle East and the
nature of the protest movements springing up all over the world.
Mehdi Hasan is Senior Editor (Politics) at the
New Statesman
and is a former news and current affairs editor at Channel 4
.
He is a regular guest on the BBC's Question Time and The Big Questions,
and also appears on BBC News, Sky News, Al Jazeera and LBC, where he is
a guest presenter. He recently published
Ed: the Milibands and the
Making of a Labour Leader
(with James Macintyre).
