Heroic failure
O'Toole, Fintan2030
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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.
Main title:
Heroic failure / Fintan O'Toole.
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Imprint:
London : Apollo Library, 2030.
Collation:
276 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781789540994 (pbk)
Dewey class:
341.2'422'0941341.2422341.242
Language:
English
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BRN:
2454825