Sean Rameswaram

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7,113 appearances 119 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 9 Sep

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Today, Explained · Anarchy in the UK · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

I'm a civil servant.

I won't give you my exact salary, but in my job, it starts from about £26,000.

So the pay isn't brilliant, but apparently the pension is good in the end.

Do you want to show me roughly how much you make on an annual basis?

£43,000.

And do you think you're paid fairly for the work that you do?

No.

So London is doing really well, but outside of it, things are much worse.

It's comparable, one researcher, Anna Stansbury, told me, to the gaps between East and West Germany.

That's kind of as big as we're talking.

So unless you're going to those places, you're not fully capturing what the experience of being British is and participating in the British economy.

And you went to one such place.

You left London and went to a place called Stoke-on-Trent, which a lot of people might not be familiar with.

Can you tell us why you went there and what you discovered?

So Stoke-on-Trent used to be the ceramics capital of the UK and really of the world.

And it used to be dominated by these structures called bottle kilns.

These are these massive ovens that...

Used to fire in the air.

All of those kilns are, you know, not working anymore.

The number of ceramics potteries that are left are very, very few.

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