 | Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple
Buy new: £8.48 / Used from: £5.94 Luminous essays on the cultural decline of Britain. No one says it more incisively, wittily and clearly than TD.
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 | Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £12.40 Dalrymple's De Profundis. This is the horrific truth about life at the bottom of British society today; a vivid portrait of the expanding underclass which will rise and engulf polite society.
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 | Fantasy Island by Larry Elliott
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01 If you have ever wondered how a country can have a continuously rising standard of living without producing anything any one wants to buy, here is the answer. It's a fantasy which will end very soon.
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 | The Death of Christian Britain (Christianity and Society in the Modern World) by Callum G. Brown
Buy new: £16.06 / Used from: £8.65 Describes, analyses and convincingly explains how and why Christianity, as a core cultural feature of British life, died in the late 20th century. R.I.P.
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 | Underclass +10 (Civil Society) by Charles Murray
Buy used from: £37.39 Charts the seemingly inexorable expansion of the underclass (as described by Dalrymple- vide supra) in Britain from 1990 to 2000.
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 | The Welfare State We're in by James Bartholomew
Buy new: £9.46 / Used from: £6.00 Shows how the welfare state has caused tens of thousands of people to live deprived and even depraved lives, and has undermined the very decency and kindness which first inspired it.
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 | Time to Emigrate? by George Walden
Buy used from: £0.01 After reading this the answer has to be yes. But where to? Maybe just getting out of M25 land would be far enough.
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 | Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State within by Melanie Phillips
Buy new: £11.49 / Used from: £0.18 Just note that this was published before the latest round of bomb attempts, by deranged doctors.
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 | The Abolition of Britain by Peter Hitchens
Buy used from: £0.01 A sad epitaph to what has happened to our once green and pleasant land.
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 | Who Runs This Place?: The Anatomy of Britain in the 21st Century by Anthony Sampson
Buy used from: £0.01 Power in Britain is now centralised in a very few hands. The title of this list is inspired by Samson's 1962 classic 'Anatomy of Britain'. This posthumous volume is a fine update on the original.
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 | All Must Have Prizes by Melanie Phillips
Buy used from: £4.99 A trenchant 1996 polemic against the modern style of education and already a classic. This is why our young people have to do remedial maths before they can start university courses in science.
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 | A Land Fit for Criminals: An Insider's View of Crime, Punishment and Justice in the UK by David Fraser
Details what lies behind the rise in crime in the UK since the 1960's, leading to the current situation where Britain has been designated the most unsafe of Western countries.
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 | It's Your Time You're Wasting: A Teacher's Tales of Classroom Hell by Frank Chalk
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £1.88 From the chalk face description of chaos in the classrooms of Britain's schools.
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 | Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities 1 by Correlli Barnett
Buy used from: £0.50 Critical analysis of the start of the long decline in Britain's industrial base in the post war period 1945-1950.
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