The War on The Old by John Sutherland

The War on The Old by John Sutherland

The war on the old has been declared.In the post-Brexit world, intergenerational conflict has become a visible phenomenon. There is an overwhelming sense of blame from younger generations: it was 'the wrinklies', the grey-haired plutocracy, who voted Leave; who are overburdening hospitals, shutting the youth out of the housing market and hoarding accumulated wealth.By 2020, we are told, one in five Britons will be pensioners, and living a longer retirement than ever before. 'A good thing', politicians add, through gritted teeth. The truth is that for them, 'the old' are a social, economic and political inconvenience.John Sutherland (age 78, and feeling keenly what he writes about) examines this intergenerational combat as a new kind of war in which institutional neglect and universal indifference to the old has reached aggressive, and routinely lethal, levels. This is a book which sets out to provoke but in the process tells some deep and inconvenient truths, revealing something British society would rather not think about.

John Sutherland is a British academic, newspaper columnist and author. Currently he is an Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has published more books than he cares to count, including Is Heathcliff a Murderer? Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir, Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives and, most recently, the first study of what it is like to read Orwell without a sense of smell - the first of Professor Sutherland's own senses to drop off.

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ISBN 13	9781785901713
ISBN 10	1785901710
Title	The War on The Old
Author	John Sutherland
Series	Provocations
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Biteback Publishing
Year published	2016-11-17
Number of pages	144
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