{"product_id":"heroic-failure-brexit-and-the-politics-of-pain","title":"Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain","description":"\u003cp\u003e'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit narrative'\u003c\/b\u003e David Miliband.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Hugely entertaining and engrossing'\u003c\/b\u003e Roddy Doyle.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Best book about the English that I've read for ages'\u003c\/b\u003e Billy Bragg.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read... Pitilessly brilliant'\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Coe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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 Farrage and Jacob Rees-Mogg; and the silent rise of English nationalism, the force that dare not speak its name.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/fintan-otoole-books\"\u003eFintan O'Toole\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Head of Zeus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781789540987\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Head of Zeus","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.00","offer_id":47917253066929,"sku":"SB-1789540984-C3","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1789540984.jpg?v=1789143734","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/heroic-failure-brexit-and-the-politics-of-pain","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}