Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

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 pos…

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