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Battling for Britain

19 Feb 2016

I had intended to write a post about Owen Hatherley’s stimulating recent book The Ministry of Nostalgia, and then thought I wanted to write something about today’s EU summit where Britain is negotiating terms prior to a Referendum on continued membership. But it occurred to me that the two are in many ways linked. Hatherley’s book picks up on something which I have also noticed and commented on in this blog, namely the grotesque historical spoonerism in which wartime and post-war austerity is
european union brexit referendum war populism nostalgia 1945 owen hatherley tony judt

Authors

Chris Grey

Length
1,225 words
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United Kingdom
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