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A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read ...
A new afterword lays out the essential reforms that are urgently needed if England is to have a truly democratic future and stable relations with its nearest neighbours..
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.
Fintan O'
Toole 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.
Trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions; the pose of indifference to truth and historical fact came to define the style of an entire political elite; a country that once had colonies redefined itself as an oppressed nation requiring liberation.
A great democratic country tears itself apart, and engages in the dangerous pleasures of national masochism.
A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. '
Best book about the English that I've read for ages'
Billy Bragg. '
Hugely entertaining and engrossing'
Roddy Doyle. '
A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit narrative'
David Miliband.
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. '
There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style'
The Times.
Pitilessly brilliant'
JONATHAN COE. '
A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read ..
