/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13047373]

What's some good contemporary British literature which accurately covers the state of the country today?

I'm talking retail parks, Instagram, call centre work, Twitter spats, full-sleeve tats, charity shops, concrete slabs, 30-year-old virgins, grooming gangs, private schools, video games, the death of pubs, moving abroad, Tinder swipes, addiction to porn, gender benders, ethnic replacement, "I don't see me dad", the housing crisis, depressed young men, Megabus, the London exodus, anxiety disorders, Turning Point Greggs, Barratt Homes, anal sex, student debt, veganism, burnt-out teachers, IVF, cruising Boomers, N'Gubu up front, tents on the highstreet, Kardashian culture.

Who is writing about these topics?

[Anonymous No.13047503]

Nothing to recommend, but sounds like American or general Western degradation rather than a purely British issue. The only caveat to your list is the death of pubs probably being of different cause to the death of bars in the states, though probably not much different in that each carries an associated stigma which discourages younger generations from going.

[Anonymous No.13047525]

>>13047503
What's the reason bars are closing in the states?

In Britain it's partly due to people drinking at home, partly due to areas becoming majority Muslim and so having no local customers left.

[Anonymous No.13047531]

>>13047373
>the death of pubs
Since when

[Anonymous No.13047538]

>>13047525
You're talking shit. Even Bradford is still majority white.

[Anonymous No.13047554]

>>13047373
Kate Tempest's poetry/music

[Anonymous No.13047563]

>>13047531
They've been closing for years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45086080

[Anonymous No.13047565]

>>13047538
I mean not really. Birmingham has just been declared minority White British, and a senior councillor in Nottingham recently announced that within the next decade the city will be majority White British.

[Anonymous No.13047569]

>>13047563
Aren’t there still more pubs per area than any other country?

[Anonymous No.13047571]

>>13047565
>minority White British
>area becoming majority Muslim
ok

[Anonymous No.13047579]

>>13047571
What do you think the fastest growing demographic is in the UK? I doubt you'll see Hindus replacing the local white Brits down the Ploughman's Inn any time soon either.

[Anonymous No.13047583]

>>13047569
Dunno. Doesn't matter either way.

[Anonymous No.13047596]

>>13047579
>What do you think the fastest growing demographic is in the UK?
irrelevant

>I doubt you'll see Hindus replacing the local white Brits down the Ploughman's Inn any time soon either.
why not?

[Anonymous No.13047604]

>>13047571

This is what denial looks like

[Anonymous No.13047608]

>>13047565
You deserve your extinction and the destruction and humiliation of your culture. And as soon as the royals will declare themselves muslim to save themselves, We shall declare Crusade upon Your cold socialist island and avenge the invincibile armada.

[Anonymous No.13047615]

>>13047608
>socialist island
??

[Anonymous No.13047636]

>>13047615
>b-b-But We're so capitalist!! All our problems are due to bad conservative government based (((Corbyn))) will make it rain milk and honey!
You're slaves and enjoy being slaves.
So You'll get moreof What You like.
At the moment being a slave has "upsides" like the NHS and various wellfare presents.
However the money for such frivolities will soon be over.

[Anonymous No.13047688]

>>13047565

why is bradford only 37 % non-white british? I thought that place was ground zero

[Anonymous No.13047690]

>>13047538
I hear their nursing homes are like 90% white, could do with some diversifying.

[Anonymous No.13047695]

>>13047688
Wow, turns out the sensationalist media and /pol/ memes may have lied to you, who could have guessed

[Anonymous No.13047708]

>>13047688
Considering the figure is dropping 13% every decade, you can expect it to be about 50% white british now tops.

[Anonymous No.13047710]

What a retarded brainlet thread. Fuck off to /britpol/

[Anonymous No.13047712]

>>13047690
Source on this map?

[Anonymous No.13047718]

>>13047712
http://datashine.org.uk/

[Anonymous No.13047721]

>>13047718
Ta.

[Anonymous No.13047722]

The journey home took three hours. We didn’t speak the whole time. We passed towns like Burton-On-Trent and Stoke and Preston and Oldham and Rochdale. Towns where nothing happened, towns that nothing came out of, towns where people worked in vain, sighed in desperation, waited for better days, waited for it to all be over. Towns where hopelessness was recognised as a collective psyche and not a mental health issue. Towns where people lived for the weekend because there was truly nothing else. How many people in this country, this world, were trapped, choked and strangled by their hometowns and everything that came along with them?

[Anonymous No.13047745]

>>13047722
Cringe. Literal safari-tier tourism.

[Anonymous No.13047755]

>>13047745

I just found it interesting OP posted this, whilst I'm in the middle of trying to write a novel on the modern British experience

I sat and tried to eat my meal but after a while. it stopped tasting like food. It collected in my mouth, a stodgy sludge and suddenly I felt like I was going to vomit. I sat back on my seat all queasy and thought about my mother’s question. Why? Beyonce songs played through a tinny speaker. My existential crisis was soundtracked by Destiny’s Child vocals. It was absurd but strangely normal at the same time. The modern world, or at least my experience of it, was categorised by these nonsensical moments.

[Anonymous No.13048239]

>>13047525
Before that it was because of the smoking ban.

[Anonymous No.13048259]

>>13047373
Norfposting

[Anonymous No.13048309]

>>13047688
>ONLY 37%

what the fuck, only 50 years ago it would have been nigh on 99%.