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Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

30 Ratings

4.1

Duration
6H
Language
English
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Category

Non-Fiction

A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book, from the author of Ship of Fools, about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit.

In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himself discovering how trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions; how the pose of indifference to truth and historical fact has come to define the style of an entire political elite; how a country that once had colonies is redefining itself as an oppressed nation requiring liberation; the strange gastronomic and political significance of prawn-flavoured crisps, and their role in the rise of Boris Johnson; the dreams of revolutionary deregulation and privatisation that drive Arron Banks, Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg; and the silent rise of English nationalism, the force that dare not speak its name.

"There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style" THE TIMES.

© 2019 QUEST from W. F. Howes Ltd (Audiobook): 9781528864589

Release date

Audiobook: 14 March 2019

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