When community life declines

John Harris wrote an interesting piece in The Guardian recently, lamenting the progressive loss of shared spaces and the slow fracturing of our society into groups of people who never really meet each other. The shared spaces he has in mind are things like pubs (approximately 18 close every week), nightclubs (down from 3,144 in 2005 to 1,733 in 2015) music venues (down 35% in 10 years), drop-in centres, youth centres (down by 600 since 2010) and libraries, to name but a few. His point is that...