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Chronic pain and ravaged mental health: this is the brutal reality of Britain’s new working class | Aditya Chakrabortty

The story of former Amazon worker Karolina Sobczak reveals much about the people who keep our society running – at huge personal costIf journalists visit Mansfield at all these days, they come for one thing: the cliches. They want the market town where 70% backed Brexit, the “red wall” seat that booted out its Labour MP in 2017 for a private-school boy who called for the poor to be sterilised. They want colliery brass bands, Nigel Farage’s beery grin and vox pops about stopping the boats. And they’re not alone. For social scientists and thinktankers, Mansfield and its ring of former mining villages make up a petri dish of “left-behind” England, of isolation and anger and impoverishment. They’re part of that other England, which performs the same role in our politics as the corrections a...

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