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Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

by Fintan O'Toole - £9.99  Apollo (2019)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781789540994 | ISBN 10: 1789540992

A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit.
 
A great democratic country tears itself apart, and engages in the dangerous pleasures of national masochism. 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. 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. 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.
 
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.

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