
David Edgerton: “The UK needs a politics of modesty”
The acclaimed historian on whether Britain is in decline, the Nairn-Anderson thesis and what Labour gets wrong about economic growth.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
The acclaimed historian on whether Britain is in decline, the Nairn-Anderson thesis and what Labour gets wrong about economic growth.
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