A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive reserve, from the writer of Dispatch of Fools, about the act of national self-harm referred to as Brexit.

In exploring the answers towards the query: ‘why did Britain vote keep?’, Fintan O’Toole finds himself finding how trivial journalistic is situated became far from trivial nationwide obsessions; how the present of indifference to truth and historical fact has arrive to define the design of an entire politics elite; how a country that once had colonies is definitely redefining itself as an oppressed nation needing liberation; the strange gastronomic and political significance of prawn-flavoured crisps, and their part in the rise of Boris Johnson; the dreams of groundbreaking deregulation and privatisation that drive Arron Banking institutions, Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg; as well as the silent rise of British nationalism, the drive that dare not speak it is name.

‘There will never be very much political writing with this or any kind of other year that’s carried off with such style’ THE TIMES.