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Heroic failure : Brexit and the politics of pain
- Title
- Heroic failure : Brexit and the politics of pain / Fintan O'Toole.
- Author
- O'Toole, Fintan, 1958-
- Publication
- London : Head of Zeus, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 217 pages; 24 cm
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Brexit and the politics of pain
- Subjects
- Great Britain
- European Union countries
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 2007-
- Politics and government
- European Union History > 21st century
- Diplomatic relations
- Great Britain > Foreign relations > European Union countries
- History
- European Union Great Britain
- European Union countries > Foreign relations > Great Britain
- Since 2000
- European Union
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "An Apollo book".
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217).
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1439
- ISBN
- 9781789540987
- 1789540984
- LCCN
- 2018439783
- OCLC
- 1063526994
- Author
- O'Toole, Fintan, 1958- author.
- Title
- Heroic failure : Brexit and the politics of pain / Fintan O'Toole.
- Publisher
- London : Head of Zeus, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217).
- Chronological Term
- Since 2000
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1439