{"product_id":"heroic-failure-brexit-and-the-politics-of-pain-1","title":"Fintan O'Toole: Heroic Failure [2018] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \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\u003cb\u003e'Hugely entertaining and engrossing'\u003c\/b\u003e Roddy Doyle. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Best book about the English that I've read for ages'\u003c\/b\u003e Billy Bragg. \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","brand":"O'toole, Fintan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46786321252691,"sku":"9781789540987","price":15.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47098135314771,"sku":"XV81789540987","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Good","offer_id":48744436728147,"sku":"XG81789540987","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/o-toole-fintan-fintan-o-toole-heroic-failure-2018-paperback-946533314.jpg?v=1767990072","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/heroic-failure-brexit-and-the-politics-of-pain-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}