SHIREBROOK, England — There used to be a mine at the edge of this small town near the center of England. You work here, one worker told me in the drizzly parking lot last month, and you get treated like a monkey. Shirebrook was the third stop of a 900-mile journey I made through Britain last month. I was trying to make sense of a splintered country in the run-up to the Dec. 12 general election. The outside world typically sees Britain through the affluence and cosmopolitanism of London, but other than one quick stop there, I went elsewhere, looking for people beyond the capital’s glare.

Source: New York Times December 07, 2019 07:52 UTC