Wetherell cleverly projects a diagnosis for Britain's post-industrial decline through the prism of Liverpool's hidden social histories.

Stephen McGann

bracing and provocative... Wetherell doesn't pull his punches

Financial Times

It is not an overstatement to say that this book will change the way we think about the history of modern Britain.

Emily Baughan, author of Saving the Children and 2024 BBC New Generation Thinker

Sparkling... should be read by anyone with and interested in the recent history of Britain, and where on earth we go from here

The TLS

Staggeringly good... the most thoughtful and creative history of modern Britain for a long, long time.

Bill Schwarz

An account that sets out to demolish a slew of myths

London Review of Books