Heroic failure :
Brexit and the politics of pain /
Fintan O'Toole.
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| Summary: | "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. He also discusses the fatal attraction of herioc failure, once a self-deprecating cult in a hugely successful empire that could well afford the occasional disaster: the Charge of the Light Brigade, or Franklin lost in the Arctic. Now failure is no longer heroic--it is just failure, and its terrible costs will be paid by the most vulnerable of Brexit's supporters, and by those who may suffer the consequences of a hard border in Ireland and the breakdown of a fragile peace."--Page 2 of cover. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Head of Zeus Ltd,
2018.
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| Notes: | "An Apollo book". Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217). Physical description: xviii, 217 pages ; 24 cm. Portion of title: Brexit and the politics of pain more |
| ISBN: | 9781789540987 1789540984 |
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