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Why middle class Brits who think collapse is coming still stay silent

28 Mar 2025

Photo by Marcus Kauffman on Unsplash
Image: Photo by Marcus Kauffman on Unsplash

OPINION: In one hand, an oat latte. In the other, a phone with social feeds full of doom-scroll posts about the end of the world. Across Britain, a quiet transformation is happening.

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