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the Hello and welcome to another episode of Interregnum with Richard Seymour.

I spoke to Richard about a recent blog post he wrote, titled The Enravelling,

on Britain's declining

public infrastructure and the wave of strikes that are taking place, including the first

ever nationwide strike by NHS nurses. We chatted about the extent to which the public perceived

the UK as being in a state of increasing decline, the state of the trade unions, and how current industrial action

compares with the so-called Winter of Discontent of 1978 to 79, and finally we talked

about how the Conservative government and the Labour opposition are responding to a seemingly

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