Darren McGarvey: ‘Austerity was class war. I want to hit back’

For this week’s BetterPod, we’ve been out and about in Glasgow – the home city of performer, activist and Orwell-prize winning writer Darren McGarvey... otherwise known as the rapper Loki.

His latest book is about the economic and cultural distance between those who make decisions and the people on the receiving end of them. The Social Distance Between Us argues that remote politics has wrecked Britain.

But, as Laura Kelly and Katerina Sivitanides found on our first walking podcast edition of BetterPod, that distance isn’t always geographic. In Glasgow’s West End, we take a 15 minute walk that brings us from one of Scotland’s most deprived areas to one of the most prosperous.

Against that backdrop, Darren explains the complex causes and consequences of inequality.

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