{ "item_title" : "The Line on the Hull", "item_author" : [" Vaughan Smith "], "item_description" : "We have not been failing to look. We have been looking the wrong way.While we argue left against right, one faith or colour against another, a cold few draw off power, money and attention, and the cost lands on the rest of us. It has a name. Extraction. Not a diagnosis but a behaviour, and older than any party.The answer is on the hull. In 1876 Parliament stopped the drowning of sailors not by asking shipowners to be better men but by painting a line on every ship that anyone on the dock could read. Visible marks, independent keepers, a watch kept up when nothing seems wrong. That is the whole of it, for pensions and cladding and the machines we are building now.The Line on the Hull is the fifteen-minute companion to The Extraction Pattern: the whole argument, portable, in one sitting. Inside: seven questions to put to anyone who asks for your vote.Read it. Then pass it on.Vaughan Smith filmed the siege of Sarajevo and founded London's Frontline Club. The neuroscience is reviewed by Professor Katalin Gothard.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/06/764/254/1067642544_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "5.99", "online_price" : "5.99", "our_price" : "5.99", "club_price" : "5.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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