Why the left must abandon the myth of British decline
The declinist theories championed by Perry Anderson blame the problems of the present on an imagined past.
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David Edgerton
David Edgerton is professor of modern British history at King’s College London and the author of books including The Rise and Fall of the British Nation and Britain’s War Machine.
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The new age of autarky
How crises and upheavals are drawing Britain away from globalisation and back towards a national capitalism.
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How the myth of “Britain alone” overshadows VE Day
The UK has long downplayed the awkward truth that its victory in the Second World War largely depended on the…
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Why the coronavirus crisis should not be compared to the Second World War
Military analogies are fuelling myths and fantasies about the UK’s wartime experience.
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How Britain was sold
Why we need to rethink the case for a national capitalism in the age of uncertainty.
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Brexit is not a product of history: it’s something entirely new
Brexit is not the revenge of the British past, and it’s not about the EU. It is a new politics, with…
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The Brexiteers’ greatest trick was convincing the old they hated Brussels more than London
The politics of Brexit – or UKexit as it should be called, for it will take the UK, not…
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