Heroic failure : Brexit and the politics of pain / Fintan O'Toole.
Publisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2018Description: xviii, 217 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781789540987
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Loanable Book | Library | Irish Collection | 341.242 OTO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000412193 |
An Apollo Book.
Includes bibliographical references.
"intan 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 Farrage 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 heroic 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." - Copac
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