in which he was on his own and felt very un empowered. so, i think the point is that loneliness is on the increase, the nature of being in your bedroom on social media, losing certain industries that used to give communities, men, particularly, a sense of themselves and their identity, those are gone, inequality, all of those things driving a world in which we become more atomised, and we don t pay enough attention to what binds us together, what we have in common, what does it mean to build the nation, what does it mean to build locality, and should governments be in the business of supporting that? and i think they absolutely should. they should, and you say in the book, you say we should have a sort of national service, no, not the old sort, not going out to fight or being ready to fight but what you call a compulsory national civic service. are you wanting people to have the experience that you did? last time you talked to me here on political thinking,
of themselves and their identity, those are gone, inequality, all of those things driving a world in which we become more atomised, and we don t pay enough attention to what binds us together, what we have in common, what does it mean to build the nation, what does it mean to build locality, and should governments be in the business of supporting that? and i think they absolutely should. they should, and you say in the book, you say we should have a sort of national service, no, not the old sort, not going out to fight or being ready to fight but what you call a compulsory national civic service. are you wanting people to have the experience that you did? last time you talked to me here on political thinking, you told the extraordinary story of being a boy from tottenham whose world was a couple of kind of n postcodes in north london suddenly finding yourself at a choral school, as a choral scholar in peterborough, taking the train for the first time. are you saying, in a sense, what c
the nature of being in your bedroom on social media, losing certain industries that used to give communities, men, particularly, a sense of themselves and their identity, those are gone, inequality, all of those things driving a world in which we become more atomised, and we don t pay enough attention to what binds us together, what we have in common, what does it mean to build the nation, what does it mean to build locality, and should governments being in the business of supporting that? and i think they absolutely should. they should, and you say in the book, you say we should have a sort of national service, no, not the old sort, not going out to fight or being ready to fight but what you call compulsory national civic service. are you wanting people to have the experience that you did? last time you talked to me here on political thinking, you told the extraordinary story of being a boy from tottenham whose