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Post-imperial, post-colonial and now post-millennial, Britain is definitely not what it was. As a new century opens, even Scotland and Wales, not so very long ago indissoluble components of the "Inner Empire", are flexing their devolutionary muscles and looking about for new opportunities and relationships. The artificial nation-states of 19th century real-politik seem less and less viable in an age of blurred boundaries and regional alliances. What does this mean for the United Kingdom? What, ultimately, does it mean for England? Does the future lie with Europe or with the USA? Where do we turn? In The Day Britain Died political journalist (and expatriate Scot) Andrew Marr explores this unprecedented national identity crisis and offers a vision of a possible resolution.
Post-imperial, post-colonial and now post-millennial, Britain is definitely not what it was. As a new century opens, even Scotland and Wales, not so very long ago indissoluble components of the "Inner Empire", are flexing their devolutionary muscles and looking about for new opportunities and relationships. The artificial nation-states of 19th century real-politik seem less and less viable in an age of blurred boundaries and regional alliances. What does this mean for the United Kingdom? What, ultimately, does it mean for England? Does the future lie with Europe or with the USA? Where do we turn? In The Day Britain Died political journalist (and expatriate Scot) Andrew Marr explores this unprecedented national identity crisis and offers a vision of a possible resolution.
It's a wide-ranging, incisively-written and often witty treatise. Marr wrote The Day Britain Died to accompany a television series, travelling the country to interview people at all points on the political and ideological spectrum, from romantic Little-Englander ruralists, to businessmen relishing their opportunities in the new global service industries, to Eurosceptics, to Bangladeshi entrepreneurs, to Green theorists and politicians. The views expressed on national identity and the future are varied, energetic and often surprising, but cannot disguise a sense that, in contrast to its neighbours, England as a nation is running on empty. Andrew Marr places this against the background of a subtle, considered discussion of the historical and political forces that shaped Britain and determined its relations with Europe, the USA and the rest of the world. He concludes with a powerfully-argued case for a revitalised British federation of interdependent states, backed up with a strong written constitution (and Alan Bennett as president--this may or may not be a joke). The issues this book raises are difficult and divisive, yet affect the lives of everyone living in the place still called Britain.--Robin Davidson
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With the same relaxed but informed voice that made Ruling Brittannia such a success Anthony Marr has attempted an anatomy of Britain and 'Britishness'. In the spirit of JB Priestley and George Orwell, he embarked on a country-wide tour hoping to catch the elusive butterfly of national identity in the net of his acute journalism. The result is eminently readable and honest - where Orwell had the agenda of social injustice Marr issues disclaimers about being a watchful bystander. He talks about his own idenity as a Scottish Londoner who received a very English education, belonging to a generation for whom 'Hornblower was past, but Dan Dare was still to come.' His topics range from Brit-art to a watery-eyed nostalgia for the golden age of cricket that commentators were hankering after in Punch, in the nineteenth century. Talking to all sorts of Britons including inner-city Bangladeshis, eco-warriors and farmers teetering on the edge of bankruptcy Marr builds up a mosiac of opinions and asks the question: what happened to our collective sense of identity? And, if Britain has died why didn't anyone hear the dead mans rattle? (Kirkus UK)
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