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Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain [Audiobook]
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Fintan O'Toole, Sam Devereaux (Narrator), "Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain"
ASIN: B07PGQY8WH, ISBN: 1528879163 | 2019 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:00:00 | 171 MB
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.