The dead dream of the millennium
Our century started as it meant to go on: with broken promises
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Alwyn W Turner
Alwyn Turner is a political and cultural historian. His next book, A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between the Wars, is out in January 2026
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The history of English rioting repeats itself
Periods of unrest in England are nothing new – and it’s unlikely they will end in 2024.
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