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I wrote a book called "Crap Towns". It seemed funny at the time
In 2003, I wrote a book called Crap Towns. It seemed funny at the time. But plenty of people say it would not be possible to publish it today. Is that a problem?
The Fence generously endorsed this idea by saying that Crap Towns was something that “struck at the real core values of British life: bodged buildings, massive class anxiety and rampant self-loathing.” He described it as an affectionate bit of chiding, an attempt to kick-start conversations about regeneration and how Britain could and should be better (as well as an excuse to have some fun with bad planning decisions, local corruption and car parks.) In the summer of 2021, when identitarian politics and all the related fear and loathing were close to their frenzied Covid peak, I took a call from another journalist who was writing a piece for the I paper about, as he put it, the “long rich tradition of various different UK towns being named the country’s worst.”
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