Acknowledgements vii
1. The Great Divide 1
A Journey from Anywhere 14
2. Anywheres and Somewheres 19
The Decline (but Survival) of Traditional Values 27
Higher Education and Mobility 33
The Great Liberalisation 38
The Outriders 44
3. European Populism and the Crisis of the Left 49
Populism Goes Mainstream 54
America and Europe: The Populist Convergence 64
Populist Parties: The Necessary, the Weird and the Ugly 69
Why Populists Damage the Left Most 75
4. Globalisation, Europe and the Persistence of the National 81
A World on the Move? 81
The Globalisation Overshoot 85
The European Tragedy 91
The Persistence of the National 104
5. A Foreign Country? 117
The Immigration Story 122
What About Integration? 127
The London Conceit 134
6. The Knowledge Economy and Economic Demoralisation 147
The Disappearing Middle 149
A Short History of Education and Training 154
Living Standards and Inequality 167
Short-Termism and Foreign Ownership 172
7. The Achievement Society 179
What is Actually Happening on Mobility? 183
Making it into the Elite 187
8. What About the Family? 193
More State, Less Family 199
What do WomenWant? 205
Supporting Partnerships in an Age of Male-Female Equality 210
9. A New Settlement 215
Somewheres are not going Anywhere 221
Giving Somewheres a Voice 225
Notes 235
Select Bibliography 261
Index 265