The Day Britain Died |
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 | The BBC's political editor has a playfully pointed and witty style which is the perfect antidote to another tome on whither-Britain. His incisive pen can slice through cant, decimate a non-sequitur and demolish misplaced patriot-bigotry at 20 paces. But Marr doesn't nihilistically evade authorial responsibility - and so in his final chapter propounds an alternative vision for Britain's post-devolution constitutional arrangements. Which is a shame, really, because he was doing so well until then. Like so many others he buys into the nationalist myth that the "Celtic fringe" have taken to demanding more democracy because of centuries' betrayal by the feckless English. In fact the growth of Scottish and Welsh nationalism perfectly mirrors the increasing disenchantment with tribal two-party politics evident throughout Britain, and apparent in England with the post-1960s' resurgence of the Liberal Party. "The people" are simply voting for whichever political party seems best placed to ... read more.
Written by Andrew Marr.
Published 17 January 2000.
Published by Profile Books Ltd.
rrp £7.99.
228 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 1861972237
ISBN-13: 9781861972231 | |
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