Jacob Furedi

Jacob Furedi is the editor of Dispatch and the former deputy editor of Unherd.

How Birmingham became the epicentre of Britain’s opioid crisis

From our UK edition

Rats grown fat on refuse prowl the streets of Birmingham. Mounds of rubbish pile up outside houses. Desperate to avoid blame, the city’s politicians bleat about being held to ransom by a pesky union. ‘Welcome to Brum,’ one resident said as he caught me taking a photo of a bin mountain. Even CNN has a