Sinking Services?: Britain's Crisis of State Capacity - With Glen O'Hara

Breaking Britain: A Podcast about the Politics of a Disunited Kingdom

In this week's episode, we have been joined by Glen O'Hara to explore the escalating crisis facing the UK's public services. Over the past 18 months among public services from universities to healthcare the British state has been shaken by waves of strikes and infrastructure breakdowns whose effects have come to be acutely felt in everyday life. With his extensive research background on the history of British state institutions, Glen O'Hara helps us explore the wider social, economic and political dynamics that have brought Britain's public services close to breaking point.
As Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes University, Glen O'Hara has published groundbreaking work on economic and social policy in Britain after the First World War. He is currently Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded programme 'Spaces of Hope: The Hidden Histories of Community-Led Planning in the UK' and writes regularly on current affairs and policy for The Guardian and The New European.
The background music is by Through the City by Crowander, and the production for this podcast was by Daniel Mansfield.